Area: 224,960 sq mi.; slightly smaller than Texas
Capital: Nairobi (pop. 2.9 million; 2007 est.)
Population: 36.9 million
Government: Republic

Very high degree of risk for some major infectious diseases:

• Food or Waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
• Vectorborne disease: malaria is a high risk in some locations
• Water contact disease: schistosomiasis

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Kenya faces profound environmental challenges brought on by high population growth, deforestation, shifting climate patterns, and the overgrazing of cattle in marginal areas in the north and west of the country. Significant portions of the population will continue to require emergency food assistance in the coming years.

Population estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2007 est.)

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