Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Poland and Venezuela, side by side

Poland in 2026: half the people are older than 44. Venezuela: half are older than 31.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Poland 38,762,844 people · Venezuela 28,300,854

Poland 37.8 million people Half are older than 44 21 in 100 are 65 or older

Venezuela 28.6 million people Half are older than 31 11 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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POL × VEN · 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.

Poland

Children, under 15: 14
Aged 15 to 64: 65
Aged 65 and over: 21

Venezuela

Children, under 15: 24
Aged 15 to 64: 65
Aged 65 and over: 11

POL × VEN · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

If the birth rates of this year held for a whole lifetime, a woman in Poland would have about 1.3 children and a woman in Venezuela about 2.0. Babies born this year can expect about 79 years of life in Poland and about 73 in Venezuela.

Children per woman, 2026

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

Poland 1.3

Venezuela 2.0

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.

Poland 79 years

Venezuela 73 years

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

POL × VEN · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Poland is the larger of the two, with about 30% more people than Venezuela: 37.8 million to 28.6 million.

Poland's population is 1.5 times what it was in 1950; Venezuela's population is 5.2 times what it was in 1950.

Looking ahead: Poland's population peaked in 2023, and Venezuela's population is expected to peak in 2057. The UN expects Venezuela to have more people than Poland from 2057. In 2100: 19.3 million in Poland, 28.3 million in Venezuela (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Poland: people	Venezuela: people	Poland: half older than	Venezuela: half older than	Poland: children per woman	Venezuela: children per woman	Poland: life expectancy	Venezuela: life expectancy
1950	24.7802 million	5.48885 million	25.8	17.1	3.65	6.63	58.3	51.1
1960	29.5760 million	8.16009 million	26.6	16.5	3.00	6.38	67.1	58.4
1970	32.5426 million	11.3878 million	28.3	16.9	2.25	5.32	69.6	64.8
1980	35.5765 million	15.2582 million	29.5	18.8	2.28	4.20	70.5	68.2
1990	38.0555 million	19.8270 million	32.4	20.7	2.06	3.45	70.6	71.0
2000	38.2581 million	24.5267 million	35.3	23.0	1.37	2.79	73.7	72.4
2010	38.0954 million	28.8131 million	37.9	25.8	1.41	2.40	76.3	73.1
2023	38.7628 million	28.3009 million	42.3	30.0	1.30	2.08	78.6	72.5
2030*	37.1985 million	29.1518 million	46.0	31.2	1.33	1.99	79.8	73.7
2040*	35.1795 million	30.4954 million	50.3	33.9	1.37	1.90	81.5	75.3
2050*	32.8141 million	31.0949 million	52.8	37.5	1.40	1.83	83.0	76.9
2060*	30.1392 million	31.1979 million	53.5	40.3	1.42	1.79	84.4	78.5
2070*	27.1036 million	30.9576 million	55.4	41.9	1.45	1.76	85.6	80.0
2080*	24.0377 million	30.4560 million	56.2	44.3	1.46	1.74	86.8	81.5
2090*	21.4526 million	29.6200 million	55.5	46.4	1.47	1.73	87.9	82.9
2100*	19.3298 million	28.2806 million	56.3	47.4	1.49	1.72	89.0	84.2

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

POL − VEN · 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 Poland and which is Venezuela, 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; Poland is drawn in solid blue squares and Venezuela 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.

The working behind the median age, the rounding in the “100 people” pictures and the reason the regions are kept out of the all-country views are all set out in the method.

250 comparisons have a page of their own; any other two places can be compared from the boxes at the top.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries