Kenya’s population in 2022 Kenya’s total population was55.60 millionin January 2022. Data show that Kenya’s populationincreasedby1.2 million(+2.2 percent) between 2021 and 2022. 50.3 percentof Kenya’s population isfemale, while49.7 percentof the population ismale. At the start of 2022,29.0...
Most of the Kenyan people live in the capital city Nairobi, along the shores of Lake Victoria in the western region or along the eastern coastline. However, less than 30% of the population live in cities and towns. Thebiggest cities are Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu. There are42 ethnic grou...
According to the World Bank, as of 2022, 71% of the Kenyan population still lived in rural areas without easy access to infrastructure like banking, transport, electricity, and roads. These factors make mobile broadband essential in bridging the economic divide and driving the economic inclusion o...
The report says the population of the wealthy in Kenya and other African countries is expected to grow significantly in the coming years, fuelling the hunt for cross-border investments, residency, and citizenship. “New World Wealth has predicted a healthy wealth growth of 38 percent for Afri...
It does not include the economically inactive population, such as the long-term unemployed or full-time students.Find more key insights for the youth unemployment rate in countries like Somalia and Burundi. Kenya: Youth unemployment rate from 2004 to 2023 ...
In addition, the supply of affordable serviced land is inadequate amid soaring prices in urban areas, leading to increased development costs. Only 28 percent of the population in Kenya is urbanized, while 61 percent of the urbanized live in informal settlements. An estimated...
In Kenya, there are around 110,000 officers for a population of roughly 56 million. This ratio means that while police are available,they might not be able to respond to every single incident. However, there’s a special unit dedicated to tourism in Kenya—the Tourism Police Unit. These of...
This article, part of a wider study on fertility dynamics in Kenya, attempts to synthetically reconstruct the evolution of the Kenyan population structure over the past 60 years, following the development of population policies adopted by the Kenyan government. It emphasizes the importance and the ne...
Given Kenya’s population of 51.5 million people, its total $7.22 billion in 2023 exported goods translates to roughly $140 for every resident in the East African country. That dollar metric lags the average $145 per person one year earlier in 2022. ...
We conducted a qualitative study on the sexual behaviour of young people in Kisumu, to further explore results from an earlier population survey on factors determining the differential spread of HIV in four African cities: two with a relatively low and stable HIV prevalence (Cotonou and Yaoundé)...