Kenya Attractions and Wonders !
Population
According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects, the total population was 40,513,000 in 2010 compared to only 6,077,000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 42.5%, 54.9% was between 15 and 65 years of age, and 2.7% was 65 years or older.
Age group Male Female Total Percent
0-14 8 398 4218 173 456 16 571 877 42,92
15-64 10 180 149 10 504 712 20 684 861 53,57
65+ 602 410 729 863 1 332 273 3,45
Kenyan Tribes: ( Top 5 Tribes)
1. The Maasai Tribe is the most popular Tribe.
2. The Embu Tribe dwelling on the fertile south eastern side of Mount Kenya,the Embu comprise roughly half a millionpeople.
3. The Kalenjin Tribe is made up of between 3 and 4 million Kenyans.
4. The Kamba Tribe A tribe of agriculturalists and traders, the Kamba call the central and eastern parts of Kenya .
5. The Kikuyu Tribe has 6 million people and are the largest ethnic group in the country
Languages:
Kenya's various ethnic groups typically speak their mother tongues within their own communities. The two official languages, English and Swahili, are used in varying degrees of fluency for communication with other populations. English is widely spoken in commerce, schooling and government.[17] Peri-urban and rural dwellers are less multilingual, with many in rural areas speaking only their native languages.[18]
According to Ethnologue, there are a total of 69 languages spoken in Kenya. Most belong to two broad language families: Niger-Congo (Bantu branch) and Nilo-Saharan (Nilotic branch), spoken by the country's Bantu and Nilotic populations, respectively. The Cushitic and Arab ethnic minorities speak languages belonging to the separate Afro-Asiatic family, with the Indian and European residents speaking languages from the Indo-Europeanfamily.[19]