Mali vs Zimbabwe Population Pyramid 1950 to 2100

This is an animated population pyramid comparison of these two countries' total population by five year age bands from 1950 to 2100. Data from 1950 to 2020 are estimates and data from 2021 onwards are projections. Both are prepared by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in their 2019 Revision of World Population Prospects. The full data source citation can be seen below. They have many other interesting data sets displaying key demographics indicators for various groups and areas of the world.

The animation is written in notepad++ using Google Charts Javascript libraries, plus a small amount of CSS and html coding. It's then rendered in a web browser and recorded using OBS Studio, with music added on top. I use Excel to clean and manipulate the data. Python is used to control the recording process, various VBA macros and batch files to automate the music and animations.

I hope you found this population pyramid entertaining, beautiful and informative to watch. I have many other population pyramids on my channel, for both specific countries and regions (with male/female splits) and comparisons between them.

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Data Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019, Online Edition. Rev. 1.