Kenya Population Information

The Kenya population has experienced an increase of 2.5 to 2.8 per annum over the last several years but this is expected to change as demonstrated by the population graphs below. You will find access to resources to help you better understand the population of Kenya.If you plan to travel to Kenya, you will need a visa to enter. Click here to apply for your Kenya visa online.

In 2007 Kenya’s population was estimated at 36,913,721, up from 28.7 million reported in the 1999 national census and from 15.3 million in the 1979 census. In 2006 the annual population growth rate was about 2.8 percent, a rate substantially below that of the early 1980s, when Kenya’s growth reached 4 percent, the highest rate in the world. As of the end of 2006, Kenya was host to some 220,000 refugees from neighboring countries, including 162,000 from Somalia and most of the remainder from Sudan. Somewhat more than one-third of Kenya’s population lives in urban areas, with the greatest concentration in Nairobi. The non-city-dwelling

The World Factbook gives 37,953,840 as the population of Kenya in 2008. estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2008 est.)

The graphs below provide a visual demonstration of the population growth of Kenya over the decade from 1998 to 2008 and growth projections until 2018.

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