Quality of Life Comparison
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If you lived in Kenya instead of Peru, you would:
be 64.0% less likely to be obese
In Peru, 19.7% of adults are obese. In Kenya, that number is 7.1% of people.
be 16.0 times more likely to be living with HIV/AIDS
In Peru, 0.3% of people are living with AIDS/HIV. In Kenya, that number is 4.8% of people.
live 9.7 years less
In Peru, the average life expectancy is 74 years (72 years for men, 76 years for women). In Kenya, that number is 64 years (63 years for men, 66 years for women).
make 73.7% less money
Peru has a GDP per capita of $13,300, while in Kenya, the GDP per capita is $3,500.
be 6.0 times more likely to be unemployed
In Peru, 6.7% of adults are unemployed. In Kenya, that number is 40.0%.
be 59.0% more likely to be live below the poverty line
In Peru, 22.7% live below the poverty line. In Kenya, however, that number is 36.1%.
have 34.3% more children
In Peru, there are approximately 17.8 babies per 1,000 people. In Kenya, there are 23.9 babies per 1,000 people.
be 7.5 times more likely to die during childbirth
In Peru, approximately 68.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor. In Kenya, 510.0 women do.
be 17.2% less likely to be literate
In Peru, the literacy rate is 94.2%. In Kenya, it is 78.0%.
be 2.0 times more likely to die during infancy
In Peru, approximately 18.4 children die before they reach the age of one. In Kenya, on the other hand, 37.1 children do.
be 78.0% less likely to have access to electricity
In Peru, 91% of people have electricity access (98% in urban areas, and 73% in rural areas). In Kenya, that number is 20% of people on average (60% in urban areas, and 7% in rural areas).
be 42.9% less likely to have internet access
In Peru, approximately 45.5% of the population has internet access. In Kenya, about 26.0% do.
be 27.1% less likely to have access to improved drinking water
In Peru, approximately 87% of people have improved drinking water access (91% in urban areas, and 69% in rural areas). In Kenya, that number is 63% of people on average (82% in urban areas, and 57% in rural areas).
spend 39.5% more on education
Peru spends 3.8% of its total GDP on education. Kenya spends 5.3% of total GDP on education.
see 77.8% less coastline
Peru has a total of 2,414 km of coastline. In Kenya, that number is 536 km.
Kenya: At a glance
Kenya is a sovereign country in Africa, with a total land area of approximately 569,140 sq km. Founding president and liberation struggle icon Jomo KENYATTA led Kenya from independence in 1963 until his death in 1978, when President Daniel MOI took power in a constitutional succession. The country was a de facto one-party state from 1969 until 1982 when the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) made itself the sole legal party in Kenya. MOI acceded to internal and external pressure for political liberalization in late 1991. The ethnically fractured opposition failed to dislodge KANU from power in elections in 1992 and 1997, which were marred by violence and fraud, but were viewed as having generally reflected the will of the Kenyan people. President MOI stepped down in December 2002 following fair and peaceful elections. Mwai KIBAKI, running as the candidate of the multiethnic, united opposition group, the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC), defeated KANU candidate Uhuru KENYATTA and assumed the presidency following a campaign centered on an anticorruption platform. KIBAKI's NARC coalition splintered in 2005 over a constitutional review process. Government defectors joined with KANU to form a new opposition coalition, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), which defeated the government's draft constitution in a popular referendum in November 2005. KIBAKI's reelection in December 2007 brought charges of vote rigging from ODM candidate Raila ODINGA and unleashed two months of violence in which as many as 1,500 people died. African Union-sponsored mediation led by former UN Secretary General Kofi ANNAN in late February 2008 resulted in a power-sharing accord bringing ODINGA into the government in the restored position of prime minister. The power sharing accord included a broad reform agenda, the centerpiece of which was constitutional reform. In August 2010, Kenyans overwhelmingly adopted a new constitution in a national referendum. The new constitution introduced additional checks and balances to executive power and significant devolution of power and resources to 47 newly created counties. It also eliminated the position of prime minister following the first presidential election under the new constitution, which occurred on 4 March 2013. Uhuru KENYATTA, the son of founding president Jomo KENYATTA, won the March elections in the first round by a close margin and was sworn into office on 9 April 2013.
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The statistics on this page were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.
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