Kenya’s Population Reaches 36.8 Million

A decade ago, family planning practitioners touted Kenya as a success story.  Its total fertility rate (TFR) had declined from 8 children in the late 1970’s to 4.7 by 1999.  But as a result of dwindling international donor support for family planning, Kenya’s fertility rate and contraceptive prevalence rate began creeping back up shortly after the Millennium. As a consequence, concerns about population growth, particularly in light of increasing drought and water scarcity, are on the rise again. In August Kenya announced that its population in the last decade had risen to 36.8 million, an increase of 10 million. 

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