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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Russia and 
Ukraine, side by side
In 2026, half of the people in Russia are older than 42. In Ukraine, half are older than 43.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Russia 145,440,501 people · Ukraine 37,732,836
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.
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.
men women projected
RUS × UKR · 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.
- Children, under 15
- 17
- Aged 15 to 64
- 65
- Aged 65 and over
- 18
- Children, under 15
- 13
- Aged 15 to 64
- 68
- Aged 65 and over
- 19
RUS × UKR · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
At today's rates, a woman in Russia would have about 1.5 children in her lifetime. In Ukraine, about 1.0. A baby born in Russia this year can expect to live about 74 years. In Ukraine, about 75.
Children per woman, 2026
Each figure is one child: how many children a woman would have in her lifetime at that year’s rates.
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.
Hatched marks are UN projections (medium variant), not measurements.
RUS × UKR · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Russia is the larger of the two, with about 4 times as many people as Ukraine: 143 million to 39.5 million.
Russia's population is 1.4 times what it was in 1950; Ukraine's population is 1.1 times what it was in 1950.
Russia's population peaked in 1991. Meanwhile Ukraine's population peaked in 1993. In 2100: 126 million in Russia, 15.2 million in Ukraine (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Russia: people | Ukraine: people | Russia: half older than | Ukraine: half older than | Russia: children per woman | Ukraine: children per woman | Russia: life expectancy | Ukraine: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 103.392 million | 37.3109 million | 24.0 | 27.4 | 2.93 | 2.45 | 55.5 | 61.2 |
| 1960 | 119.934 million | 42.8241 million | 27.3 | 29.3 | 2.63 | 2.29 | 68.3 | 69.4 |
| 1970 | 130.367 million | 47.2613 million | 30.7 | 32.3 | 2.01 | 2.08 | 68.7 | 70.8 |
| 1980 | 138.573 million | 49.9552 million | 31.1 | 33.5 | 1.92 | 1.95 | 67.5 | 69.8 |
| 1990 | 148.980 million | 52.0541 million | 33.2 | 34.2 | 1.91 | 1.84 | 69.3 | 70.3 |
| 2000 | 146.718 million | 49.5567 million | 36.7 | 37.3 | 1.19 | 1.11 | 65.0 | 67.8 |
| 2010 | 143.934 million | 46.4560 million | 38.0 | 39.6 | 1.58 | 1.44 | 68.2 | 70.2 |
| 2023 | 145.440 million | 37.7328 million | 40.5 | 43.0 | 1.45 | 0.98 | 73.2 | 73.4 |
| 2030* | 141.889 million | 38.3539 million | 43.2 | 44.7 | 1.49 | 1.03 | 74.4 | 75.7 |
| 2040* | 138.282 million | 35.2709 million | 44.9 | 49.2 | 1.52 | 1.09 | 76.2 | 77.2 |
| 2050* | 136.133 million | 31.9901 million | 42.7 | 52.1 | 1.54 | 1.14 | 77.9 | 78.8 |
| 2060* | 132.893 million | 28.3113 million | 44.4 | 54.2 | 1.55 | 1.18 | 79.5 | 80.3 |
| 2070* | 129.711 million | 24.5942 million | 44.9 | 57.2 | 1.57 | 1.22 | 81.1 | 81.7 |
| 2080* | 127.838 million | 21.0759 million | 43.9 | 59.3 | 1.58 | 1.25 | 82.4 | 83.1 |
| 2090* | 127.144 million | 17.9089 million | 44.8 | 58.7 | 1.59 | 1.27 | 83.8 | 84.4 |
| 2100* | 126.387 million | 15.1974 million | 46.0 | 58.9 | 1.59 | 1.30 | 85.0 | 85.6 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
RUS − UKR · 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 Russia and which is Ukraine, 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; Russia is drawn in solid blue squares and Ukraine 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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Apparatus
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.
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 →
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