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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Kenya and 
Uganda, side by side
Line both places up by age in 2026. In Kenya, half are older than 21; in Uganda, half are older than 18.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Kenya 55,339,002 people · Uganda 48,656,602
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.
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.
men women projected
KEN × UGA · 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.
- Children, under 15
- 36
- Aged 15 to 64
- 61
- Aged 65 and over
- 3
- Children, under 15
- 43
- Aged 15 to 64
- 55
- Aged 65 and over
- 2
KEN × UGA · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
Kenya is at about 3.1 children for each woman, at this year's rates; Uganda is at about 4.0. Babies born this year can expect about 64 years of life in Kenya and about 69 in Uganda.
Children per woman, 2026
Each figure is one child: how many children a woman would have in her lifetime at that year’s rates.
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.
Hatched marks are UN projections (medium variant), not measurements.
KEN × UGA · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
There are 58.6 million people in Kenya and 52.8 million in Uganda: about 10% more people than Uganda.
Kenya's population is 10.2 times what it was in 1950; Uganda's population is 9.2 times what it was in 1950.
Kenya's population is expected to peak in 2098; Uganda's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Uganda to have more people than Kenya from 2046. In 2100: 104 million in Kenya, 121 million in Uganda (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Kenya: people | Uganda: people | Kenya: half older than | Uganda: half older than | Kenya: children per woman | Uganda: children per woman | Kenya: life expectancy | Uganda: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 5.76918 million | 5.75091 million | 17.0 | 19.2 | 7.39 | 6.66 | 36.9 | 39.7 |
| 1960 | 7.69531 million | 7.64097 million | 15.6 | 17.0 | 7.65 | 6.91 | 48.5 | 45.6 |
| 1970 | 11.3688 million | 10.3216 million | 14.3 | 16.5 | 7.94 | 7.15 | 54.1 | 49.6 |
| 1980 | 16.0185 million | 13.2757 million | 14.4 | 15.9 | 7.53 | 7.11 | 59.2 | 43.5 |
| 1990 | 22.8926 million | 17.5699 million | 15.3 | 15.8 | 6.13 | 7.01 | 58.3 | 47.6 |
| 2000 | 30.6429 million | 24.0002 million | 16.6 | 15.0 | 5.14 | 6.79 | 56.1 | 49.6 |
| 2010 | 41.5986 million | 32.3908 million | 17.9 | 15.2 | 4.45 | 6.02 | 60.9 | 60.0 |
| 2023 | 55.3390 million | 48.6566 million | 20.5 | 17.5 | 3.21 | 4.28 | 63.6 | 68.3 |
| 2030* | 63.1022 million | 58.3129 million | 22.4 | 19.0 | 2.92 | 3.61 | 64.9 | 69.8 |
| 2040* | 74.1089 million | 72.0204 million | 25.0 | 21.7 | 2.61 | 2.99 | 66.5 | 71.7 |
| 2050* | 83.5932 million | 85.4312 million | 27.3 | 25.0 | 2.35 | 2.61 | 67.9 | 73.4 |
| 2060* | 91.5696 million | 97.5423 million | 29.8 | 28.5 | 2.18 | 2.35 | 69.2 | 75.1 |
| 2070* | 97.8257 million | 107.461 million | 32.4 | 31.8 | 2.04 | 2.17 | 70.4 | 76.7 |
| 2080* | 101.744 million | 114.812 million | 34.7 | 35.1 | 1.95 | 2.04 | 71.7 | 78.2 |
| 2090* | 103.764 million | 119.268 million | 36.6 | 38.3 | 1.89 | 1.96 | 73.0 | 79.7 |
| 2100* | 104.195 million | 120.835 million | 38.5 | 41.2 | 1.84 | 1.90 | 74.4 | 81.1 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
KEN − UGA · 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 Kenya and which is Uganda, 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; Kenya is drawn in solid blue squares and Uganda 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
Kenya and Uganda 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.
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.
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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