Myanmar: population and ages

In mid-1950 there were 17.7 million people, so the population is now 3.1 times as large.

The UN projects 881,000 births and 514,000 deaths in 2026, 367,000 more births than deaths.

The UN projects the first year with more deaths than births in 2054.

The median age is 30.4, close to the world’s 31.1.

24% of the people are under 15 and 7.6% are 65 or older (world: 24% and 11%).

The UN projects that people aged 65 and over will outnumber children under 15 from 2068.

Women have 2.1 children on average at today’s rates (world: 2.2), against 5.9 in 1950.

Life expectancy at birth is 67.5 years, below the world’s 73.8. In 1950 it was 35.7.

For mid-2050 the UN projects 58.6 million people, 6.2% more than now, with a median age of 36.3.

By the death rates of 2023, life expectancy at birth was 66.9 years. People who had reached 65 could expect 14.3 more years for women and 12.3 for men.

On 1 January 2026, there are 11.2 people aged 65 or more for every 100 aged 15 to 64. For 2050, the UN projects 19.9.

For 2100 the UN projects a population of 49.7 million, with a 95 percent prediction interval of 26.6 million to 88.2 million.

Life expectancy at birth is a period measure. It sums up the death rates of one year and is not a forecast of how long the babies born that year will live.

In mid-2024, 79,100 international migrants lived here, 0.1% of the population.

In mid-2024, 4.32 million people from here lived in other countries.