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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Sudan and 
Uganda, side by side
Line both places up by age in 2026. In Sudan, half are older than 20; in Uganda, half are older than 18.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Sudan 50,042,790 people · Uganda 48,656,602
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
SDN × UGA · 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
- 40
- Aged 15 to 64
- 57
- Aged 65 and over
- 3
- Children, under 15
- 43
- Aged 15 to 64
- 55
- Aged 65 and over
- 2
SDN × UGA · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
Sudan is at about 4.1 children for each woman, at this year's rates; Uganda is at about 4.0. Babies born this year can expect about 67 years of life in Sudan and about 69 in Uganda.
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.
SDN × UGA · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Sudan has about as many people as Uganda: 53.3 million against 52.8 million.
Since 1950 the two have moved differently: Sudan's population is 8.6 times what it was in 1950, while Uganda's population is 9.2 times what it was in 1950.
Sudan's population is still growing in 2100. Meanwhile Uganda's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Uganda to have more people than Sudan from 2034. In 2100: 137 million in Sudan, 121 million in Uganda (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Sudan: people | Uganda: people | Sudan: half older than | Uganda: half older than | Sudan: children per woman | Uganda: children per woman | Sudan: life expectancy | Uganda: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 6.18991 million | 5.75091 million | 17.1 | 19.2 | 6.66 | 6.66 | 45.8 | 39.7 |
| 1960 | 8.36449 million | 7.64097 million | 16.6 | 17.0 | 6.66 | 6.91 | 49.6 | 45.6 |
| 1970 | 11.6958 million | 10.3216 million | 16.1 | 16.5 | 6.99 | 7.15 | 52.3 | 49.6 |
| 1980 | 17.0589 million | 13.2757 million | 16.4 | 15.9 | 6.59 | 7.11 | 54.1 | 43.5 |
| 1990 | 22.0215 million | 17.5699 million | 16.8 | 15.8 | 6.07 | 7.01 | 55.5 | 47.6 |
| 2000 | 27.8167 million | 24.0002 million | 16.8 | 15.0 | 5.60 | 6.79 | 59.0 | 49.6 |
| 2010 | 35.4144 million | 32.3908 million | 17.3 | 15.2 | 5.14 | 6.02 | 63.0 | 60.0 |
| 2023 | 50.0428 million | 48.6566 million | 19.3 | 17.5 | 4.32 | 4.28 | 66.3 | 68.3 |
| 2030* | 58.5716 million | 58.3129 million | 20.5 | 19.0 | 3.88 | 3.61 | 67.6 | 69.8 |
| 2040* | 71.7306 million | 72.0204 million | 22.4 | 21.7 | 3.36 | 2.99 | 69.3 | 71.7 |
| 2050* | 85.2064 million | 85.4312 million | 25.0 | 25.0 | 3.00 | 2.61 | 70.9 | 73.4 |
| 2060* | 98.6274 million | 97.5423 million | 27.5 | 28.5 | 2.74 | 2.35 | 72.3 | 75.1 |
| 2070* | 110.783 million | 107.461 million | 29.9 | 31.8 | 2.53 | 2.17 | 73.8 | 76.7 |
| 2080* | 121.318 million | 114.812 million | 32.1 | 35.1 | 2.38 | 2.04 | 75.2 | 78.2 |
| 2090* | 130.242 million | 119.268 million | 34.3 | 38.3 | 2.25 | 1.96 | 76.7 | 79.7 |
| 2100* | 136.891 million | 120.835 million | 36.5 | 41.2 | 2.15 | 1.90 | 78.1 | 81.1 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
SDN − UGA · 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 Uganda, 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 Uganda 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
Every figure for Sudan and Uganda 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.
For how the median age is derived, why “100 people” can read a person high or low, and what the all-country pictures do and do not count, see the method.
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