Countries of the World/COUNTRYS.BIN/dp/0206/02069.txt

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Statistical Profile of Kenya}
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Country:     Kenya
Book:        CIA World Factbook
Author:      Central Intelligence Agency
Affiliation: United States Government
Date:        1990


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Statistical Profile of Kenya

Geography

Total area: 582,650 km2; land area: 569,250 km2

Comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of Nevada

Land boundaries: 3,477 km total; Ethiopia 861 km, Somalia 682 km,
Sudan 232 km, Tanzania 769 km, Uganda 933 km

Coastline: 536 km

Maritime claims:
Extended economic zone: 200 nm
Territorial sea: 12 nm

Disputes: international boundary and Administrative Boundary with Sudan;
possible claim by Somalia based on unification of ethnic Somalis

Climate: varies from tropical along coast to arid in interior

Terrain: low plains rise to central highlands bisected by Great Rift
Valley; fertile plateau in west

Natural resources: gold, limestone, diotomite, salt barytes, magnesite,
feldspar, sapphires, fluorspar, garnets, wildlife

Land use: 3% arable land; 1% permanent crops; 7% meadows and pastures;
4% forest and woodland; 85% other; includes NEGL% irrigated

Environment: unique physiography supports abundant and varied wildlife
of scientific and economic value; deforestation; soil erosion; desertification;
glaciers on Mt. Kenya

Note: the Kenyan Highlands is one of the most successful agricultural
production regions in Africa

People

Population: 24,346,250 (July 1989), growth rate 4.2% (1989)

Birth rate: 51 births/1,000 population (1989)

Death rate: 9 deaths/1,000 population (1989)

Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1989)

Infant mortality rate: 70 deaths/1,000 live births (July 1989)

Life expectancy at birth: 59 years male, 63 years female (July 1989)

Total fertility rate: 7.8 children born/woman (1989)

Nationality: noun--Kenyan(s); adjective--Kenyan

Ethnic divisions: 21% Kikuyu, 14% Luhya, 13% Luo, 11% Kalenjin, 11% Kamba,
6% Kisii, 6% Meru, 1% Asian, European, and Arab

Religion: 38% Protestant, 28% Roman Catholic, 26% indigenous beliefs,
6% Muslim

Language: English and Swahili (official); numerous indigenous languages

Literacy: 47%

Labor force: 7,400,000; 50% public sector, 20% services, 15% agriculture,
14% industry and commerce; 1,200,000 wage earners (1987 est.); 45% of population
of working age (1985)

Organized labor: 390,000 (est.)

Government

Long-form name: Republic of Kenya

Type: republic within Commonwealth

Capital: Nairobi

Administrative divisions: 7 provinces and 1 area*; Central, Coast,
Eastern, Nairobi Area*, North-Eastern, Nyanza, Rift Valley, Western

Independence: 12 December 1963 (from UK; formerly British East Africa)

Constitution: 12 December 1963, amended as a republic 1964;
reissued with amendments 1979 and 1983

Legal system: based on English common law, tribal law, and Islamic law;
judicial review in High Court; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with
reservations; constitutional amendment in 1982 made Kenya a de jure one-party
state

National holiday: Independence Day, 12 December (1963)

Branches: president and Cabinet responsible to unicameral legislature
(National Assembly) of 200 seats, 188 directly elected by constituencies and 12
appointed by the president; high court, with chief justice and at least 11
justices, has unlimited original jurisdiction to hear and determine any civil or
criminal proceeding; provision for system of courts of appeal

Leader:
Chief of State and Head of Government President Daniel Teroitich arap MOI
(since 14 October 1978); Vice President Dr. Josephat KARANJA (since 24 March
1988)

Suffrage: universal over age 18

Elections: National Assembly at least every five years; present National
Assembly and President elected 21 March 1988

Political party and leader: Kenya African National Union (KANU), Kenya's
sole legal political party, Daniel T. arap Moi, President

Voting strength: KANU holds all seats in the National Assembly

Communists: may be a few Communists and sympathizers

Other political or pressure groups: labor unions; exile
opposition--Mwakenya and other groups

Member of: AfDB, CCC, Commonwealth, FAO, G-77, GATT, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO,
ICO, IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IRC, ISO, ITU,
IWC--International Wheat Council, NAM, OAU, UN, UNDP, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO,
WMO, WTO

Diplomatic representation: Ambassador Denis Daudi AFANDE; Chancery at
2249 R Street NW, Washington DC 20008; telephone [phone]; there are
Kenyan Consulates General in Los Angeles and New York;
US--Ambassador Elinor G. CONSTABLE; Embassy at the corner of Moi Avenue
and Haile Selassie Avenue, Nairobi (mailing address is P. O. Box 30137,
Nairobi or APO New York 09675); telephone [254] (2) 334141; there is a
US Consulate in Mombasa

Flag: three equal horizontal bands of black (top), red, and green; the red
band is edged in white; a large warrior's shield covering crossed spears is
superimposed at the center

Economy

Overview: A serious underlying economic problem is Kenya's 4.2% annual
population growth rate--one of the highest in the world, which if continued
would lead to a doubling of population every 17 years. Meantime, GDP growth
in the near-term has kept slightly ahead of population--about 5% in 1988
compared with 4.8% in 1987 and 5.6% in 1986. In 1989, GDP growth will be
sustained through foreign and domestic borrowing, a prudent monetary policy,
and domestic credit and structural reforms inspired by the IMF and World
Bank. Undependable weather conditions and a shortage of arable land hamper
long-term growth in agriculture, the leading economic sector.

GDP: $8.1 billion, per capita $370; real growth rate 4.8% (1987)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.2% (1987)

Unemployment rate: NA%, but there is a high level of unemployment
and underemployment

Budget: revenues $2.3 billion; expenditures $2.6 billion, including
capital expenditures of $0.71 billion (FY87)

Exports: $1.2 billion (f.o.b., 1987); commodities--coffee 20%,
tea 18%, manufactures 15%, petroleum products 10% (1987);
partners--Western Europe 45%, Africa 22%, Far East 10%, US 4%, Middle East
3% (1987)

Imports: $1.8 billion (c.i.f., 1987); commodities--machinery and
transportation equipment 36%, raw materials 33%, fuels and lubricants 20%,
food and consumer goods 11% (1987);
partners--Western Europe 49%, Far East 20%, Middle East 19%, US 7% (1987)

External debt: $5.0 billion (December 1988)

Industrial production: growth rate 4.8% (1987 est.)

Electricity: 587,000 kW capacity; 2,147 million kWh produced,
90 kWh per capita (1988)

Industries: small-scale consumer goods (plastic, furniture, batteries,
textiles, soap, cigarettes, flour), agricultural processing, oil refining,
cement, tourism

Agriculture: main cash crops--coffee, tea, sisal, pyrethrum
(insecticide made from chrysanthemums), cotton, livestock; food crops--corn,
wheat, sugarcane, rice, cassava; largely self-sufficient in food; an illegal
producer of cannabis; some international drug trade trafficking

Aid: NA

Currency: Kenyan shilling (plural--shillings);
1 Kenyan shilling (KSh) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Kenyan shillings (KSh) per US $1--18.739 (January 1989),
17.747 (1988), 16.454 (1987), 16.226 (1986), 16.432 (1985)

Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June

Communications

Railroads: 2,040 km 1.000-meter gauge

Highways: 64,590 km total; 7,000 km paved, 4,150 km gravel, remainder
improved earth

Inland waterways: part of Lake Victoria system is within boundaries of
Kenya; principal inland port is at Kisumu

Pipelines: refined products, 483 km

Ports: Mombasa, Lamu

Civil air: 16 major transp