Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

France and Kenya, side by side

Line both places up by age in 2026. In France, half are older than 43; in Kenya, half are older than 21.

UN estimates for mid-2023: France 66,438,822 people · Kenya 55,339,002

France 66.7 million people Half are older than 43 23 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.

Year 2026 · UN projection

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FRA × 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.

France

Children, under 15: 16
Aged 15 to 64: 61
Aged 65 and over: 23

Kenya

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

FRA × KEN · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

France is at about 1.6 children for each woman, at this year's rates; Kenya is at about 3.1. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 84 years in France, 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.

France 1.6

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.

France 84 years

Kenya 64 years

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

FRA × KEN · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

France is the larger of the two, with about 10% more people than Kenya: 66.7 million to 58.6 million.

Since 1950 the two have moved differently: France's population is 1.6 times what it was in 1950, while Kenya's population is 10.2 times what it was in 1950.

Looking ahead: France's population is expected to peak in 2095, and Kenya's population is expected to peak in 2098. The UN expects Kenya to have more people than France from 2034. In 2100: 68.5 million in France, 104 million in Kenya (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	France: people	Kenya: people	France: half older than	Kenya: half older than	France: children per woman	Kenya: children per woman	France: life expectancy	Kenya: life expectancy
1950	41.8831 million	5.76918 million	34.4	17.0	2.96	7.39	66.4	36.9
1960	46.4281 million	7.69531 million	32.8	15.6	2.73	7.65	70.4	48.5
1970	50.8131 million	11.3688 million	32.4	14.3	2.48	7.94	72.1	54.1
1980	53.9411 million	16.0185 million	32.3	14.4	1.95	7.53	74.2	59.2
1990	56.9902 million	22.8926 million	34.7	15.3	1.78	6.13	76.8	58.3
2000	59.4837 million	30.6429 million	37.7	16.6	1.88	5.14	79.0	56.1
2010	63.4174 million	41.5986 million	40.0	17.9	2.02	4.45	81.4	60.9
2023	66.4388 million	55.3390 million	42.8	20.5	1.64	3.21	83.3	63.6
2030*	67.1077 million	63.1022 million	44.0	22.4	1.64	2.92	84.2	64.9
2040*	67.9389 million	74.1089 million	44.3	25.0	1.64	2.61	85.4	66.5
2050*	68.2197 million	83.5932 million	44.5	27.3	1.65	2.35	86.6	67.9
2060*	67.8503 million	91.5696 million	45.8	29.8	1.65	2.18	87.7	69.2
2070*	67.6789 million	97.8257 million	46.3	32.4	1.65	2.04	88.9	70.4
2080*	68.0249 million	101.744 million	46.2	34.7	1.65	1.95	90.0	71.7
2090*	68.4219 million	103.764 million	47.3	36.6	1.65	1.89	91.0	73.0
2100*	68.4846 million	104.195 million	48.1	38.5	1.65	1.84	92.1	74.4

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

FRA − 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 France 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; France 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

Both sides of this comparison come from the UN Population Division's World Population Prospects 2024 — the same release, the same tables, counted to 2023 and projected beyond it on the medium variant. That shared origin is what a comparison rests on.

For how the median age is derived, why “100 people” can read a person high or low, and what the all-country pictures do and do not count, see the method.

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