Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Germany and Kenya, side by side

In 2026, half of the people in Germany are older than 47. In Kenya, half are older than 21.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Germany 84,548,231 people · Kenya 55,339,002

Germany 83.6 million people Half are older than 47 24 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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DEU × 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.

Germany

Children, under 15: 14
Aged 15 to 64: 62
Aged 65 and over: 24

Kenya

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

DEU × KEN · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

Germany is at about 1.5 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. A baby born in Germany this year can expect to live about 82 years. In Kenya, about 64.

Children per woman, 2026

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

Germany 1.5

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.

Germany 82 years

Kenya 64 years

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

DEU × KEN · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

There are 83.6 million people in Germany and 58.6 million in Kenya: about 40% more people than Kenya.

Germany's population is 1.2 times what it was in 1950; Kenya's population is 10.2 times what it was in 1950.

Looking ahead: Germany's population peaked in 2024, and Kenya's population is expected to peak in 2098. The UN expects Kenya to have more people than Germany from 2046. In 2100: 70.9 million in Germany, 104 million in Kenya (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Germany: people	Kenya: people	Germany: half older than	Kenya: half older than	Germany: children per woman	Kenya: children per woman	Germany: life expectancy	Kenya: life expectancy
1950	69.8478 million	5.76918 million	33.9	17.0	2.19	7.39	66.8	36.9
1960	72.8116 million	7.69531 million	34.7	15.6	2.38	7.65	69.3	48.5
1970	78.2051 million	11.3688 million	34.2	14.3	2.02	7.94	70.7	54.1
1980	78.3154 million	16.0185 million	36.7	14.4	1.56	7.53	73.1	59.2
1990	79.7080 million	22.8926 million	37.6	15.3	1.46	6.13	75.3	58.3
2000	81.7973 million	30.6429 million	40.0	16.6	1.39	5.14	78.1	56.1
2010	80.8309 million	41.5986 million	44.3	17.9	1.40	4.45	80.1	60.9
2023	84.5482 million	55.3390 million	46.1	20.5	1.44	3.21	81.4	63.6
2030*	82.7810 million	63.1022 million	47.3	22.4	1.48	2.92	82.5	64.9
2040*	80.5517 million	74.1089 million	49.1	25.0	1.51	2.61	83.9	66.5
2050*	78.2946 million	83.5932 million	48.9	27.3	1.54	2.35	85.2	67.9
2060*	75.6046 million	91.5696 million	47.6	29.8	1.56	2.18	86.4	69.2
2070*	73.6158 million	97.8257 million	48.2	32.4	1.56	2.04	87.5	70.4
2080*	72.1125 million	101.744 million	48.1	34.7	1.58	1.95	88.7	71.7
2090*	71.2004 million	103.764 million	47.7	36.6	1.59	1.89	89.7	73.0
2100*	70.8999 million	104.195 million	48.4	38.5	1.60	1.84	90.8	74.4

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

DEU − 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 Germany 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; Germany 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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Apparatus

Sources and method

Germany 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.

250 comparisons have a page of their own; any other two places can be compared from the boxes at the top.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

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