Area 580.370 kmq

Population 31.3 million

Capital: Nairobi with 2 million inhabitants

Language: Swahili, English and tribal languages

Life expectancy: 52 years old

Illiteracy

• 30% women
• 14% men

Half of the population lives with less than $1 per day

17.4 million children (60%).

41% of them work, only half of them are in education and only half of them finish elementary school. Only 27% register for secondary education .

70% schoolchildren abandon their studies.

Problems linked to the extreme poverty :

• Diseases ( AIDS, tubercolosis, malaria, skin diseases, malnutrtion, etc.)
• Family disgregation
• Phenomenon of child marriages
• Phenomenon of children living in the streets
• Infibulazione (?)

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