Friday, May 1, 2009

Employment vs Population in Kenya

I investigated Kenya’s rural versus urban life. According to the CIA World Factbook about 80% of the population lives in rural areas as of 2008. However, from WHO I was able to obtain that only 58% live in rural areas. Even though these statistics are off, the numbers are still both very large. We can say that less than half of the population live in cities, while the rest live elsewhere. Of the 30 million people in Kenya about 23% are below the poverty line of earning one dollar a day as mentioned in WHO. From the textbook I was able to see that there is a 45% unemployment rate. From all of these facts I was able to derive that less than half lived in the cities, meaning that they were a bit well off in their lifestyles, while the other plus 50% were not doing so well and living in rural areas. Also from the 23% below poverty border percentage I was able to conclude that even the people that are employed (55%) a bit less than half is not earning enough money to maintain themselves. Over all I conclude that there is a little bit of people that are fine in Kenya, but over one half of the population are squalors.

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