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Key facts

  • Currency: Kenyan shilling
  • Capital city: Nairobi
  • Region: Eastern Africa
  • Continent: Africa
  • Land area: 569,140 km²
  • Population: 54,027,487
  • Political Leader: Uhuru Kenyatta (President)

Latest news

Haiti waits for Kenyan police mission to fight gangs amid fears they won't come

Read: Fox News

2024-03-28

'It's mission impossible': fear grows in Kenya over plan to deploy police to Haiti

Read: The Guardian

2024-03-28

Kenya releases first cult massacre bodies to families

Read: Nation PK

2024-03-26

Kenya starts to hand over to relatives the bodies of 429 members of a doomsday cult

Read: Fox News

2024-03-26

Kenya starts to hand over to relatives the bodies of 429 members of a doomsday cult

Read: The Washington Times

2024-03-26

Kenya releases first starvation cult bodies to families

Read: Deutsche Welle

2024-03-26

Kenya releases first starvation cult bodies to families

Read: Deutsche Welle

2024-03-26

Metrics

Business

Expense 20.71 % of GDP
GDP 113,420,000,000.00 current US$
Inflation 7.66 annual %
Self-employed 61.40 % of total employment
Tax revenue 13.26 % of GDP
Unemployment 5.64 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 59.84 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 277,100.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 2.24 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 19,446.80 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 39.24 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 12.49 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 48.27 % of total
Net energy imports 17.17 % of energy use
Fertility rate 3.33 births per woman
Forest area 36,110 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 17.38 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 3,975.08 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 15.40 years
Methane emissions 37,602.50 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 20,969.00 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 27,249,938
Male Population 26,777,549
Renewable energy consumption 72.50 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 579,896.00 km²
Rural population 38,358,435
Urban land area 3,416.84 km²
Urban population 15,669,052
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 0.21 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 27.68 per 1,000 people
Death rate 8.06 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 83.40 current US$
Health expenditure 4.29 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.73 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 1.40 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 61 years
Suicide mortality rate 6.10 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 76.54 % of population
Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence 30,000
Individuals using the Internet 28.76 % of population
Net migration -10,000
Press freedom 2.41


Politics

Armed forces personnel 24,000
Democracy score 5.11
Democracy type Hybrid regime
Military expenditure 1.00 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 23.43 %


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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 1 day ago

License

CC BY 4.0

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