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Kenya

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Kenya is a country. The capital city is Nairobi, located in the Eastern Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 569,140 km², a population of 55,339,003 people and uses the currency Kenyan shilling. The President is Uhuru Kenyatta.

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currency: Kenyan shilling
capital city: Nairobi
region: Eastern Africa
continent: Africa
land area: 569,140 km²
population: 55,339,003 people
political leader: Uhuru Kenyatta (President)

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expense: 27.71 % of GDP
GDP: 108,038,588,970.60 current US$
inflation: 7.67 annual %
self-employed workers: 65.25 % of total employment
tax revenue: 13.99 % of GDP
unemployment: 5.57 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 64.31 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 24,000 people
democracy score: 5.11
democracy type: Hybrid regime
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 40,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 35.00 % of population
military expenditure: 0.91 % of GDP
net migration: -10,003 people
press freedom: 2.41
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 23.28 %
birth rate: 27.54 per 1,000 people
death rate: 7.83 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 94.67 current US$
health expenditure: 4.55 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.46 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 1.33 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 62
suicide mortality rate: 6.10 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 277,100.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 2.24 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 21.73 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 76.00 % of population
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: 3.30 births per woman
forest area: 36,110 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 17.38 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 107.98 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 15.60
methane emissions: 68.97 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 17.33 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 27,821,991 people
male population: 27,517,012 people
renewable energy consumption: 67.70 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 579,896.16 km²
rural population: 39,002,929 people
urban land area: 3,416.84 km²
urban population: 16,336,074 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.21 % of total population

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