Eastern Africa Population Pyramid 2016

Eastern Africa
2016
Population: 405,752,450

Year

-5 -1   2016  +1 +5

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Eastern Africa in 2016

In 2016, Eastern Africa had a total population of 405,752,451 people. Over the previous ten years the population grew by 31.8%, up from 307,805,762 in 2006. With a median age of 17.9 years, Eastern Africa had a youth dependency ratio of 81.3 and an old-age dependency ratio of 5.1 per 100 people of working age. This is an expansive pyramid — each cohort of children is larger than the one above it, the signature of high birth rates and rapid growth.

Share of the population by age group, 1950–2100

Data source: United Nations World Population Prospects, 2024 revision (medium variant) — last updated July 2024.


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