Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Sudan and Türkiye, side by side

Sudan in 2026: half the people are older than 20. Türkiye: half are older than 35.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Sudan 50,042,790 people · Türkiye 87,270,502

Sudan 53.3 million people Half are older than 20 3 in 100 are 65 or older

Türkiye 87.9 million people Half are older than 35 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.

Year 2026 · UN projection

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SDN × TUR · 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.

Sudan

Children, under 15: 40
Aged 15 to 64: 57
Aged 65 and over: 3

Türkiye

Children, under 15: 21
Aged 15 to 64: 68
Aged 65 and over: 11

SDN × TUR · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

Sudan is at about 4.1 children for each woman, at this year's rates; Türkiye is at about 1.6. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Babies born this year can expect about 67 years of life in Sudan and about 78 in Türkiye.

Children per woman, 2026

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

Sudan 4.1

Türkiye 1.6

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.

Sudan 67 years

Türkiye 78 years

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

SDN × TUR · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Türkiye has about 70% more people than Sudan: 87.9 million against 53.3 million.

Since 1950 the two have moved differently: Sudan's population is 8.6 times what it was in 1950, while Türkiye's population is 4.2 times what it was in 1950.

Sudan's population is still growing in 2100; Türkiye's population is expected to peak in 2047. The UN expects Sudan to have more people than Türkiye from 2054. In 2100: 137 million in Sudan, 65.3 million in Türkiye (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Sudan: people	Türkiye: people	Sudan: half older than	Türkiye: half older than	Sudan: children per woman	Türkiye: children per woman	Sudan: life expectancy	Türkiye: life expectancy
1950	6.18991 million	21.0211 million	17.1	19.6	6.66	6.47	45.8	47.3
1960	8.36449 million	28.3299 million	16.6	19.4	6.66	6.38	49.6	50.8
1970	11.6958 million	36.6385 million	16.1	18.6	6.99	5.78	52.3	56.7
1980	17.0589 million	45.4088 million	16.4	19.8	6.59	4.45	54.1	62.7
1990	22.0215 million	56.0156 million	16.8	21.8	6.07	3.11	55.5	67.8
2000	27.8167 million	65.4260 million	16.8	25.0	5.60	2.49	59.0	71.9
2010	35.4144 million	73.3468 million	17.3	29.1	5.14	2.08	63.0	75.0
2023	50.0428 million	87.2705 million	19.3	33.5	4.32	1.63	66.3	77.2
2030*	58.5716 million	89.0275 million	20.5	36.8	3.88	1.61	67.6	79.1
2040*	71.7306 million	91.0097 million	22.4	41.5	3.36	1.61	69.3	80.9
2050*	85.2064 million	91.2581 million	25.0	45.3	3.00	1.62	70.9	82.5
2060*	98.6274 million	88.8633 million	27.5	48.6	2.74	1.61	72.3	83.9
2070*	110.783 million	84.3586 million	29.9	51.9	2.53	1.61	73.8	85.2
2080*	121.318 million	78.5557 million	32.1	53.5	2.38	1.62	75.2	86.4
2090*	130.242 million	72.0213 million	34.3	54.5	2.25	1.62	76.7	87.5
2100*	136.891 million	65.3385 million	36.5	55.6	2.15	1.61	78.1	88.6

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

SDN − TUR · 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 Sudan and which is Türkiye, 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; Sudan is drawn in solid blue squares and Türkiye 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

Every figure for Sudan and Türkiye is the United Nations Population Division's, from World Population Prospects 2024: counted to 2023, and the medium projection for each year after that. Both places are taken from the same release and the same tables, which is what makes them comparable at all.

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.

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