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According to the most recent data from the World Bank, in 2020 there were just over 27 million (27,052,773) women in Kenya. ...

According to the most recent Kenya Health Workforce Report (2015) there were 357 dentists actively practising in Nairobi based on retention data. Practitioners with valid practising licenses are considered to be lawfully active in the service. This results in a ratio of 1.1 dentists per 10,000 peopl...

Kenya's real GDP, which accounts for inflation, contracted by 5.7% from 1 April to 30 June 2020 compared to an expansion of 5.3% in the same period of 2019....

The number of indigenous languages spoken in Kenya remains speculative with most sources saying that there are over 40 different indigenous languages and dialects....

Three percent of girls aged 15 to 19 years were pregnant at the time of the 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey. A further 15% had had a live birth, bringing the share of adolescents in this age group who had started childbearing to 18%. At the time, the fertility rate for this age group was...

From3 January 2020to 10 March 2021, there have been109,164confirmed casesof COVID-19 with1,879deaths, reported tothe World Health Organization. This amounts to 203 casesand 3.5deaths per100,000 people. ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a funder of Africa Check’s work, having provided 11% of our income in 2019. As a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network, Africa Check subscribes to a code of principles. According to the code, signatories should ensure that “funders have n...

Yes. In a video that went viral, Mike Sonko claimed that the alcoholic drink acted as a “throat sanitiser”. “In case the virus is somewhere in the throat, it kills,” Sonko said.Hennessy, the maker of the cognac, put out a statement dismissing the governor’s claim. According to the Wo...

According to the UNODC’s most recent homicide statistics, 437 women were victims of femicide in Kenya in 2019. This means 1.69 out of every 100,000 women were killed in Kenya in 2019. ...