By Africa Reporter, NAIROBI Kenya
The Kenya 2019 population and Census results are out and the country’s population
has grown to 47.6 million with women marginally outnumbering men.
While releasing the results on Monday
at State House, Nairobi, Director General of the Kenya National Bureau of
Statistics (KNBS) Zachary Mwangi said the total population of those enumerated
was 47,564,296.
Men account for 23,548,056 of the
population while women hit 24,014,716. Quick math shows women are more by a
mere 466,660.
“We see that the female accounted for
50.5%,” said Mwangi while noting that the intersex population has declined from
10 years ago.
The Intersex population was reported
to be 1,524 a decline from 10 years ago.
“The population has grown to 47.6
million in 2019 from 37.7 million in 2009 and the intersex population has
declined to 2.2% in 2019 from 2.9% in 2009.
Kenyans are having less children with
the Census reporting that the average household size has decline over the last
10 years.
“The average household size has
decline to 3.9 in 2019 from 4.2 in 2009,” said Mwangi.
The most populous counties were
listed as; Nairobi (4.3 million), Kiambu (2.4 million), Nakuru (2.1 million), Kakamega (1.8 million) and Bungoma (1.6 million) while the following counties are the least populous Lamu (143,920), Isiolo (268,002),
Samburu (310,327), Tana River (315,943) and Taita Taveta 340,671) .
President Uhuru Kenyatta said the
numbers released will help guide the Government in planning purposes.
“The numbers released today will go a
long way in guiding successive planning for the benefit of all Kenyans. I
expect that KNBS will release the other census volumes and make them available
to planners,” said Kenyatta.
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