Names: conventional long form: Republic of Kenya conventional short form: Kenya local long form: Republic of Kenya/Jamhuri y Kenya local short form: Kenya former: British East Africa

Capital City: Nairobi

Population: 34,707,817 note: 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 2006 est.)

GDP Per Capita: $1,200 (2006 est.)

Currency: Kenyan shilling (KES)

Languages: English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages

Total Area: total: 582,650 sq km land: 569,250 sq km water: 13,400 sq km slightly more than twice the size of Nevada

Region: Africa

Industries: small-scale consumer goods (plastic, furniture, batteries, textiles, clothing, soap, cigarettes, flour), agricultural products, horticulture, oil refining; aluminum, steel, lead; cement, commercial ship repair, tourism

Agriculture: tea, coffee, corn, wheat, sugarcane, fruit, vegetables; dairy products, beef, pork, poultry, eggs

Resources: limestone, soda ash, salt, gemstones, fluorspar, zinc, diatomite, gypsum, wildlife, hydropower

Labor Force: 1.955 million (2006 est.)
agriculture: 75% industry and services: 25% (2003 est.)

Exports: $3.614 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
tea, horticultural products, coffee, petroleum products, fish, cement

Imports: $6.602 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
machinery and transportation equipment, petroleum products, motor vehicles, iron and steel, resins and plastics

Overview: The regional hub for trade and finance in East Africa, Kenya has been hampered by corruption and by reliance upon several primary goods whose prices have remained low. In 1997, the IMF suspended Kenya's Enhanced Structural Adjustment Program due to the government's failure to maintain reforms and curb corruption. A severe drought from 1999 to 2000 compounded Kenya's problems, causing water and energy rationing and reducing agricultural output. As a result, GDP contracted by 0.2% in 2000. The IMF, which had resumed loans in 2000 to help Kenya through the drought, again halted lending in 2001 when the government failed to institute several anticorruption measures. Despite the return of strong rains in 2001, weak commodity prices, endemic corruption, and low investment limited Kenya's economic growth to 1.2%. Growth lagged at 1.1% in 2002 because of erratic rains, low investor confidence, meager donor support, and political infighting up to the elections. In the key December 2002 elections, Daniel Arap MOI's 24-year-old reign ended, and a new opposition government took on the formidable economic problems facing the nation. In 2003, progress was made in rooting out corruption and encouraging donor support. Since then, however, the KIBAKI government has been rocked by high-level graft scandals. The World Bank suspended aid for most of 2006, and the IMF has delayed loans pending further action by the government on corruption. The scandals have not seemed to affect growth, with GDP growing more than 5% in 2006.

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In 2007 Missouri exported $5,811,967 in goods to Kenya. This ranks Kenya 91^st among the 223 international buyers of Missouri goods. Missouri exports to Kenya increased from the previous year by $4,289,536 a change of 281.76%. State exports to Kenya have increased over the last 5 years by $3,930,732 a change of 208.94%. Missouri exports account for .04%. of all 2007 US exports to Kenya.