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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 (see all)
London Marathon 2024 LIVE: Record 50,000 run 26-mile race as Kenya's Alexander Mutiso Munyao wins men's title
Read: Independent
2024-04-21
How a Jack Dorsey-backed bitcoin miner uses a volcano in Kenya to turn on the lights in rural homes
Read: CNBC News
2024-04-20
Kenya's 'blood desert': can walking donor banks and drones help more patients survive?
Read: The Guardian
2024-04-19
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General information
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 | 5.60 % 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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SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
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