Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Ukraine and Uzbekistan, side by side

In 2026, half of the people in Ukraine are older than 43. In Uzbekistan, half are older than 28.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Ukraine 37,732,836 people · Uzbekistan 35,652,307

Ukraine 39.5 million people Half are older than 43 19 in 100 are 65 or older

Uzbekistan 37.7 million people Half are older than 28 6 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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UKR × UZB · 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.

Ukraine

Children, under 15: 13
Aged 15 to 64: 68
Aged 65 and over: 19

Uzbekistan

Children, under 15: 32
Aged 15 to 64: 62
Aged 65 and over: 6

UKR × UZB · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

If the birth rates of this year held for a whole lifetime, a woman in Ukraine would have about 1.0 children and a woman in Uzbekistan about 3.4. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Babies born this year can expect about 75 years of life in Ukraine and about 73 in Uzbekistan.

Children per woman, 2026

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

Ukraine 1.0

Uzbekistan 3.4

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.

Ukraine 75 years

Uzbekistan 73 years

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

UKR × UZB · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

There are 39.5 million people in Ukraine and 37.7 million in Uzbekistan: about as many people as Uzbekistan.

Set each against its own 1950 self and Ukraine's population is 1.1 times what it was in 1950, Uzbekistan's population is 6.0 times what it was in 1950.

Ukraine's population peaked in 1993. Meanwhile Uzbekistan's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Uzbekistan to have more people than Ukraine from 2028. In 2100: 15.2 million in Ukraine, 74.4 million in Uzbekistan (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Ukraine: people	Uzbekistan: people	Ukraine: half older than	Uzbekistan: half older than	Ukraine: children per woman	Uzbekistan: children per woman	Ukraine: life expectancy	Uzbekistan: life expectancy
1950	37.3109 million	6.23991 million	27.4	23.7	2.45	5.17	61.2	53.3
1960	42.8241 million	8.20911 million	29.3	22.2	2.29	6.61	69.4	56.5
1970	47.2613 million	11.7626 million	32.3	17.7	2.08	6.31	70.8	60.1
1980	49.9552 million	15.6199 million	33.5	18.9	1.95	5.04	69.8	63.0
1990	52.0541 million	20.4650 million	34.2	19.9	1.84	4.12	70.3	65.8
2000	49.5567 million	24.7871 million	37.3	21.4	1.11	2.70	67.8	65.5
2010	46.4560 million	28.3855 million	39.6	24.6	1.44	2.44	70.2	69.8
2023	37.7328 million	35.6523 million	43.0	27.9	0.98	3.50	73.4	72.4
2030*	38.3539 million	40.2482 million	44.7	27.8	1.03	3.22	75.7	73.3
2040*	35.2709 million	46.0442 million	49.2	27.9	1.09	2.84	77.2	74.6
2050*	31.9901 million	52.2107 million	52.1	29.2	1.14	2.55	78.8	76.0
2060*	28.3113 million	57.9380 million	54.2	31.5	1.18	2.34	80.3	77.4
2070*	24.5942 million	62.8170 million	57.2	33.1	1.22	2.20	81.7	78.9
2080*	21.0759 million	67.2888 million	59.3	35.1	1.25	2.09	83.1	80.3
2090*	17.9089 million	71.2810 million	58.7	37.6	1.27	2.00	84.4	81.7
2100*	15.1974 million	74.3500 million	58.9	40.0	1.30	1.94	85.6	83.0

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

UKR − UZB · 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 Ukraine and which is Uzbekistan, 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; Ukraine is drawn in solid blue squares and Uzbekistan 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

Ukraine and Uzbekistan are drawn here from one source and one release: the UN Population Division's World Population Prospects 2024, counted through 2023 and projected on its medium variant after that. Two places read off the same tables can be set against each other; two read off different tables cannot.

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.

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

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