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Offline Globalcitizen12

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This year alone 1.3 Kenyans were born and 300,000 died
« on: December 29, 2015, 05:47:05 PM »
Net gain of 1 million. Kenya population will be 56 million in 2020 and 66 million in 2030.. I wonder if the economy will be able to generate new jobs to cater for ever expanding population.
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/KCPE-results-to-be-released/-/1056/3012928/-/p6r2ce/-/index.html

Right now were having 900K KSCE candidates this number will be 500K after 4 years and under 120K for post graduate. meaning Kenya has only about 60 percent students attaining high school education.

Offline Georgesoros

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Re: This year alone 1.3 Kenyans were born and 300,000 died
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2015, 10:53:02 PM »
Money is very tight my friend. Most Kenyans can't afford secondary education. I know because I've been sending tuition to several from my area. And these are parents who work!!!

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Re: This year alone 1.3 Kenyans were born and 300,000 died
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2016, 04:31:10 PM »
tragic ironies of education-economic realities-living standards in places like Kenya ....  kids dropping out of school in say class 6 or form 2 can easily transition to readily available jobs of herders, house helps, cleaners, waiters, green grocers, hawkers, conductors, matatu drivers... in a few years they are 'comfortable'... given they don't have class or standards they can easily save enhancing their upward mobility ...they worry less about things like Eurobond, NYS saga and are more into deals ..their proboxes, plots .... they have made it

despite immense investments in education... majority of those with form 4, diploma and degree certificates and an attitude to match after 90s structural adjustment have a not so good start in our still primitive economic set up... despite staring sleeping hungry or being kicked out due to rent arrears this group takes years before accepting to wait tables, chop sukumas, spin chapos, pima makaa, no matter the returns .... internet offers great opportunities for this group... quite a number are taking up the internet jobs... so much opportunity in this frontier
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Offline yulemsee

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Re: This year alone 1.3 Kenyans were born and 300,000 died
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2016, 02:58:43 PM »
Quote from: Globalcitizen12 on December 29, 2015, 05:47:05 PM
Net gain of 1 million. Kenya population will be 56 million in 2020 and 66 million in 2030.. I wonder if the economy will be able to generate new jobs to cater for ever expanding population.
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/KCPE-results-to-be-released/-/1056/3012928/-/p6r2ce/-/index.html

Right now were having 900K KSCE candidates this number will be 500K after 4 years and under 120K for post graduate. meaning Kenya has only about 60 percent students attaining high school education.

We will be in the lower 50s million in 2020. We add about 1 million people annually, our current population is 45-46 million, do the math.

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Re: This year alone 1.3 Kenyans were born and 300,000 died
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2016, 05:29:48 PM »
agreed will be 50 million in 2020 and 60 million in 2030. However, this is just a raw calculation ignoring multiplier effect such as that 3% of 50 million will be 1.5 million instead of 1.3 million. So if we take into account exponential  population growth may be in in lower 6os in 2030.
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