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Aliases: British East Africa, Republic of Kenya, Republic of Kenya/Jamhuri ya Kenya

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Geography
Area 580,367 km²
Continent Africa
Land area 569,140 km²
Water area 11,227 km²
Land boundaries 3,457 km
Border countries
  • Ethiopia
  • Somalia
  • South Sudan
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
Coastline 536 km
Mean elevation 762 m
Lowest point 0 m
Highest point 5,199 m
People
Population 53,527,936
Official languages
  • English
  • Kiswahili
Religion Christian
Government
Long country name Republic of Kenya
Short country name Kenya
Long local name Republic of Kenya/Jamhuri ya Kenya
Short local name Kenya
Former name
  • British East Africa
Government type Presidential republic
Capital Nairobi
Economy
GDP (PPP) 163,700,000,000 USD
GDP (OER) 79,220,000,000 USD
GDP (real growth rate) 4.9 %
GDP - per capita (PPP) 3,500 USD
Gross national saving 10.4 % of GDP
Labor force 19,600,000
Unemployment rate 40 %
Population below poverty line 36.1 %
Budget revenues 13,950,000,000 USD
Budget expenditures 19,240,000,000 USD
Military expenditures 1.3 % of GDP
Taxes and other revenues 17.6 % of GDP
Budget surplus or deficit -6.7 % of GDP
Public debt 54.2 % of GDP
Inflation rate 8 %
Central bank discount rate 10 %
Commercial bank prime lending rate 13.67 %
Stock of narrow money 14,070,000,000 USD
Stock of broad money 14,070,000,000 USD
Stock of domestic credit 32,000,000,000 USD
Market value of publicly traded shares 19,330,000,000 USD
Current account balance -5,021,000,000 USD
Exports 5,792,000,000 USD
Imports 15,990,000,000 USD
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold 7,354,000,000 USD
External debt 27,590,000,000 USD
National currency Kenyan shillings
National currency (code) KES
National currency (symbol) KSh
National currency rate to USD 102.1

Founding president and liberation struggle icon Jomo KENYATTA led Kenya from independence in 1963 until his death in 1978, when Vice President Daniel Arap MOI took power in a constitutional succession. The country was a de facto one-party state from 1969 until 1982, after which time the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) changed the constitution to make itself the sole legal party in Kenya. MOI acceded to internal and external pressure for political liberalization in late 1991. The ethnically fractured opposition failed to dislodge KANU from power in elections in 1992 and 1997, which were marred by violence and fraud. President MOI stepped down in December 2002 following fair and peaceful elections. Mwai KIBAKI, running as the candidate of the multiethnic, united opposition group, the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC), defeated KANU candidate Uhuru KENYATTA, the son of founding president Jomo KENYATTA, and assumed the presidency following a campaign centered on an anticorruption platform. KIBAKI's reelection in December 2007 brought charges of vote rigging from Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) candidate Raila ODINGA and unleashed two months of violence in which approximately 1,100 people died. African Union-sponsored mediation led by former UN Secretary General Kofi ANNAN in late February 2008 resulted in a power-sharing accord bringing ODINGA into the government in the restored position of prime minister. The power sharing accord included a broad reform agenda, the centerpiece of which was constitutional reform. In August 2010, Kenyans overwhelmingly adopted a new constitution in a national referendum. The new constitution introduced additional checks and balances to executive power and devolved power and resources to 47 newly created counties. It also eliminated the position of prime minister. Uhuru KENYATTA won the first presidential election under the new constitution in March 2013, and was sworn into office the following month; he began a second term in November 2017 following a contentious, repeat election.

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