Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Philippines and Tanzania, side by side

In 2026, half of the people in the Philippines are older than 28. In Tanzania, half are older than 19.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Philippines 114,891,199 people · Tanzania 66,617,606

Philippines 118 million people Half are older than 28 6 in 100 are 65 or older

Tanzania 72.6 million people Half are older than 19 3 in 100 are 65 or older

How to read this: each pyramid stacks a place’s people by age — babies at the bottom, the oldest at the top, men on the left and women on the right. A wide bottom means many children; a wide top means many older people.

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Each bar is a share of its own place’s people, so a small country and a large one can be read side by side.

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PHL × TZA · 2026 · age groups

If each place were 100 people

Shrink each population to 100 people and count them. Dots are children under 15, filled squares are people aged 15 to 64, and open squares are people 65 and over. The picture follows the year slider above.

Philippines

Children, under 15: 26
Aged 15 to 64: 68
Aged 65 and over: 6

Tanzania

Children, under 15: 42
Aged 15 to 64: 55
Aged 65 and over: 3

PHL × TZA · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

At today's rates, a woman in the Philippines would have about 1.9 children in her lifetime. In Tanzania, about 4.4. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 70 years in the Philippines, about 68 in Tanzania.

Children per woman, 2026

Each figure is one child: how many children a woman would have in her lifetime at that year’s rates.

Philippines 1.9

Tanzania 4.4

The dashed line at 2.1 is about what it takes for each generation to replace the one before it, leaving migration aside.

How long a newborn can expect to live, 2026

Each block is ten years of life, if the death rates of that year stayed the same all life long.

Philippines 70 years

Tanzania 68 years

Hatched marks are UN projections (medium variant), not measurements.

PHL × TZA · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

The Philippines is the larger of the two, with about 60% more people than Tanzania: 118 million to 72.6 million.

Set each against its own 1950 self and the Philippines' population is 6.2 times what it was in 1950, Tanzania's population is 9.5 times what it was in 1950.

The Philippines' population is expected to peak in 2057. Meanwhile Tanzania's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Tanzania to have more people than the Philippines from 2052. In 2100: 114 million in the Philippines, 263 million in Tanzania (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Philippines: people	Tanzania: people	Philippines: half older than	Tanzania: half older than	Philippines: children per woman	Tanzania: children per woman	Philippines: life expectancy	Tanzania: life expectancy
1950	18.8495 million	7.62516 million	16.5	17.0	7.13	6.18	53.6	41.0
1960	27.8919 million	9.90142 million	15.7	17.3	7.00	6.54	59.2	42.6
1970	37.6222 million	13.4927 million	15.6	17.0	6.22	7.00	60.8	46.5
1980	48.0437 million	19.1898 million	17.2	16.4	5.11	6.99	61.9	51.3
1990	62.8547 million	26.1102 million	18.8	16.5	4.32	6.20	64.4	52.0
2000	79.6254 million	34.2601 million	20.0	17.4	3.75	5.67	67.8	53.2
2010	96.3371 million	44.7585 million	21.9	17.1	3.31	5.22	68.9	61.1
2023	114.891 million	66.6176 million	26.3	18.2	1.92	4.61	69.8	67.0
2030*	121.409 million	80.9131 million	29.2	19.1	1.82	4.16	70.7	68.4
2040*	129.547 million	103.999 million	33.0	20.8	1.77	3.63	71.9	70.3
2050*	134.373 million	129.621 million	36.9	22.8	1.74	3.23	73.2	71.8
2060*	135.032 million	156.851 million	40.7	24.8	1.71	2.94	74.6	73.4
2070*	133.032 million	184.886 million	42.5	26.9	1.70	2.72	76.0	74.8
2080*	128.572 million	212.537 million	44.2	29.0	1.69	2.53	77.4	76.3
2090*	121.786 million	238.810 million	46.0	31.2	1.69	2.39	78.9	77.8
2100*	114.222 million	262.835 million	47.1	33.3	1.67	2.26	80.3	79.2

* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.

PHL − TZA · 1950–2100 · every age

Which ages each place has more of

Each column is a year and each row an age, from babies at the bottom to 100 at the top. The shade of a cell shows which place has more of its people at that age — the key beside the picture tells you which shade is the Philippines and which is Tanzania, and the in-between shade means the same. Because it compares shares, a small place and a large one can be compared fairly.

236 countries · 1950–2100

Where they sit among all countries

Every country in the world, every year from 1950 to 2100. The grey cloud shows where most countries are; the Philippines is drawn in solid blue squares and Tanzania in open orange squares, so you can see whether each is ahead of the crowd, behind it or in the middle.

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Sources and method

Both sides of this comparison come from the UN Population Division's World Population Prospects 2024 — the same release, the same tables, counted to 2023 and projected beyond it on the medium variant. That shared origin is what a comparison rests on.

How the median age and the “100 people” pictures are worked out, and why the pictures of every country leave the regions out: how the figures here are put together.

This is one of 250 pairs with a page. The boxes at the top will take any other two places you want to see side by side.

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