Gabon vs Kenya: Birth rate

Gabon

27.67 births per 1,000 people

in 2023

Kenya

27.11 births per 1,000 people

in 2023

Gabon rank

43rd

Kenya rank

44th

Birth rate over time

Gabon currently reports 27.67 births per 1,000 people against 27.11 births per 1,000 people in Kenya, a difference of 0.56 births per 1,000 people.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Kenya ahead.

Gabon ranks 43rd and Kenya ranks 44th of 236 countries.

Indicator: Birth rate
Unit: births per 1,000 people
Source: Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 18,723 data points, 1751–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The total number of births per 1,000 people in a given year.