Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Ukraine and Venezuela, side by side

Ukraine in 2026: half the people are older than 43. Venezuela: half are older than 31.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Ukraine 37,732,836 people · Venezuela 28,300,854

Ukraine 39.5 million people Half are older than 43 19 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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UKR × 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.

Ukraine

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

Venezuela

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

UKR × VEN · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

At today's rates, a woman in Ukraine would have about 1.0 children in her lifetime. In Venezuela, about 2.0. A baby born in Ukraine this year can expect to live about 75 years. In Venezuela, about 73.

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

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.

Ukraine 75 years

Venezuela 73 years

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

UKR × VEN · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Ukraine has about 40% more people than Venezuela: 39.5 million against 28.6 million.

Set each against its own 1950 self and Ukraine's population is 1.1 times what it was in 1950, Venezuela's population is 5.2 times what it was in 1950.

Looking ahead: Ukraine's population peaked in 1993, and Venezuela's population is expected to peak in 2057. The UN expects Venezuela to have more people than Ukraine from 2053. In 2100: 15.2 million in Ukraine, 28.3 million in Venezuela (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Ukraine: people	Venezuela: people	Ukraine: half older than	Venezuela: half older than	Ukraine: children per woman	Venezuela: children per woman	Ukraine: life expectancy	Venezuela: life expectancy
1950	37.3109 million	5.48885 million	27.4	17.1	2.45	6.63	61.2	51.1
1960	42.8241 million	8.16009 million	29.3	16.5	2.29	6.38	69.4	58.4
1970	47.2613 million	11.3878 million	32.3	16.9	2.08	5.32	70.8	64.8
1980	49.9552 million	15.2582 million	33.5	18.8	1.95	4.20	69.8	68.2
1990	52.0541 million	19.8270 million	34.2	20.7	1.84	3.45	70.3	71.0
2000	49.5567 million	24.5267 million	37.3	23.0	1.11	2.79	67.8	72.4
2010	46.4560 million	28.8131 million	39.6	25.8	1.44	2.40	70.2	73.1
2023	37.7328 million	28.3009 million	43.0	30.0	0.98	2.08	73.4	72.5
2030*	38.3539 million	29.1518 million	44.7	31.2	1.03	1.99	75.7	73.7
2040*	35.2709 million	30.4954 million	49.2	33.9	1.09	1.90	77.2	75.3
2050*	31.9901 million	31.0949 million	52.1	37.5	1.14	1.83	78.8	76.9
2060*	28.3113 million	31.1979 million	54.2	40.3	1.18	1.79	80.3	78.5
2070*	24.5942 million	30.9576 million	57.2	41.9	1.22	1.76	81.7	80.0
2080*	21.0759 million	30.4560 million	59.3	44.3	1.25	1.74	83.1	81.5
2090*	17.9089 million	29.6200 million	58.7	46.4	1.27	1.73	84.4	82.9
2100*	15.1974 million	28.2806 million	58.9	47.4	1.30	1.72	85.6	84.2

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

UKR − 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 Ukraine 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; Ukraine 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

Every figure for Ukraine and Venezuela 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.

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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