Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Angola and Kenya, side by side

In 2026, half of the people in Angola are older than 18. In Kenya, half are older than 21.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Angola 36,749,906 people · Kenya 55,339,002

Angola 40.2 million people Half are older than 18 3 in 100 are 65 or older

Kenya 58.6 million people Half are older than 21 3 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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AGO × KEN · 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.

Angola

Children, under 15: 44
Aged 15 to 64: 53
Aged 65 and over: 3

Kenya

Children, under 15: 36
Aged 15 to 64: 61
Aged 65 and over: 3

AGO × KEN · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

If the birth rates of this year held for a whole lifetime, a woman in Angola would have about 4.9 children and a woman in Kenya about 3.1. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 65 years in Angola, about 64 in Kenya.

Children per woman, 2026

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

Angola 4.9

Kenya 3.1

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.

Angola 65 years

Kenya 64 years

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

AGO × KEN · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

There are 58.6 million people in Kenya and 40.2 million in Angola: about 50% more people than Angola.

Since 1950 the two have moved differently: Angola's population is 8.8 times what it was in 1950, while Kenya's population is 10.2 times what it was in 1950.

Looking ahead: Angola's population is still growing in 2100, and Kenya's population is expected to peak in 2098. The UN expects Angola to have more people than Kenya from 2061. In 2100: 150 million in Angola, 104 million in Kenya (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Angola: people	Kenya: people	Angola: half older than	Kenya: half older than	Angola: children per woman	Kenya: children per woman	Angola: life expectancy	Kenya: life expectancy
1950	4.55187 million	5.76918 million	19.9	17.0	5.77	7.39	35.9	36.9
1960	5.23165 million	7.69531 million	19.8	15.6	6.71	7.65	37.9	48.5
1970	5.85279 million	11.3688 million	17.1	14.3	7.43	7.94	39.7	54.1
1980	8.13387 million	16.0185 million	17.5	14.4	7.46	7.53	42.2	59.2
1990	11.6264 million	22.8926 million	17.4	15.3	7.27	6.13	41.9	58.3
2000	16.1949 million	30.6429 million	17.0	16.6	6.64	5.14	46.5	56.1
2010	23.2948 million	41.5986 million	17.3	17.9	6.19	4.45	57.2	60.9
2023	36.7499 million	55.3390 million	17.5	20.5	5.12	3.21	64.6	63.6
2030*	45.1605 million	63.1022 million	18.3	22.4	4.56	2.92	65.9	64.9
2040*	58.9653 million	74.1089 million	20.0	25.0	3.81	2.61	67.4	66.5
2050*	74.2954 million	83.5932 million	21.9	27.3	3.24	2.35	68.8	67.9
2060*	90.6479 million	91.5696 million	24.1	29.8	2.86	2.18	70.1	69.2
2070*	107.137 million	97.8257 million	26.4	32.4	2.61	2.04	71.3	70.4
2080*	123.012 million	101.744 million	28.7	34.7	2.40	1.95	72.6	71.7
2090*	137.557 million	103.764 million	31.0	36.6	2.25	1.89	73.8	73.0
2100*	150.046 million	104.195 million	33.1	38.5	2.14	1.84	75.0	74.4

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

AGO − KEN · 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 Angola and which is Kenya, 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; Angola is drawn in solid blue squares and Kenya 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

Angola and Kenya 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.

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