The lower the score, the more free the press of that country is. The scores are taken from the Freedom of the Press Index, elaborated by Freedom House , self-defined as "an independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world".
The data used in the index come from an annual survey of media independence in countries and territories, assessing the degree of print, broadcast, and internet freedom in each of them. Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament : Women in parliaments are the percentage of parliamentary seats in a single or lower chamber occupied by women.
Start-up procedures are those required to start a business, including interactions to obtain necessary permits and licenses and to complete all inscriptions, verifications, and notifications to start operations. Data are for businesses with specific characteristics of ownership, size, and type of production.
It also includes most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. Data are in current U. National holiday : The primary national day of celebration - often independence day. Burden of Customs Procedure measures business executives' perceptions of their country's efficiency of customs procedures.
The rating ranges from 1 to 7, with a higher score indicating greater efficiency. Data are from the World Economic Forum's Executive Opinion Survey, conducted for 30 years in collaboration with partner institutes. The round included more than 13, respondents from countries. Sampling follows a dual stratification based on company size and the sector of activity. Data are collected online or through in-person interviews. Responses are aggregated using sector-weighted averaging.
The data for the latest year are combined with the data for the previous year to create a two-year moving average. Respondents evaluated the efficiency of customs procedures in their country.
The lowest score 1 rates the customs procedure as extremely inefficient, and the highest score 7 as extremely efficient. Time required to register property is the number of calendar days needed for businesses to secure rights to property. Politics : Country politics. Time to resolve insolvency is the number of years from the filing for insolvency in court until the resolution of distressed assets.
Figures expressed per million population for the same year. Number of procedures to build a warehouse is the number of interactions of a company's employees or managers with external parties, including government agency staff, public inspectors, notaries, land registry and cadastre staff, and technical experts apart from architects and engineers.
Capital city : The location of the seat of government. Per capita figures expressed per 1 population. It includes compensation of employees such as wages and salaries , interest and subsidies, grants, social benefits, and other expenses such as rent and dividends.
Time required to get electricity is the number of days to obtain a permanent electricity connection. The measure captures the median duration that the electricity utility and experts indicate is necessary in practice, rather than required by law, to complete a procedure. Data were provided by states based on their definition of national executive and may therefore include women serving as ministers and vice ministers and those holding other ministerial positions, including parliamentary secretaries.
Time required to enforce a contract is the number of calendar days from the filing of the lawsuit in court until the final determination and, in appropriate cases, payment.
Data are as of 8 March Where there are lower and upper houses, data refer to the weighted average of women's shares of seats in both houses. Number of procedures to register property is the number of procedures required for a businesses to secure rights to property. Figures expressed per capita for the same year.
Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year. The index ranges from 0 to 10, with higher scores indicating that these laws are better designed to expand access to credit. Figures expressed per million people for the same year. Data refer to the year in which right to vote or stand for election on a universal and equal basis was recognized. Where two years are shown, the first refers to the first partial recognition of the right to vote.
Time required to build a warehouse is the number of calendar days needed to complete the required procedures for building a warehouse. Number of procedures to enforce a contract are the number of independent actions, mandated by law or courts, that demand interaction between the parties of a contract or between them and the judge or court officer. Data are in constant U. Where two years are shown, the first refers to the first partial recognition of the right to stand for election.
Trademarks are distinctive signs that identify goods or services as those produced or provided by a specific person or enterprise. Trademarks protect owners of the mark by ensuring exclusive right to use it to identify goods or services or to authorize its use in return for payment.
Per capita figures expressed per 1, population. Total vote includes valid and invalid votes, as well as blank votes in cases where these are separated from invalid votes. More information on valid, invalid and blank votes can be found at aceproject.
The figure represents the number of names on the voters' register at the time that the registration process closes, as reported by the electoral management body. Per capita figures expressed per 1 million population. Own-account capital formation is excluded. Aggregates are based on constant U.
General government final consumption expenditure general government consumption includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services including compensation of employees. Women in parliaments are the percentage of parliamentary seats in a single or lower chamber held by women.
Republic establishment date : The date on which each country or its precursor changed its form of government to a republic. Data are in current local currency. Data are in constant local currency.
Ruling party : In power now. Select year OBAMA Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament 7. Politics Presidential elections in led to widespread unrest, which resulted in the formation of a power-sharing government.
UN membership date 16 Dec. Both have been indicted by the International Criminal Court to face charges of orchestrating violence after the vote, an accusation they deny. Mr Ruto went on trial in September. The president pursued an aggressive policy of economic stimulus, including bail-outs of major car makers. The protests inspired marches in other cities worldwide in October He won a seat in the Illinois state senate in , and followed this up by winning a US Senate seat in About the same as United States Twice as much as United States 4 Ranked st.
Factoid With members, the UK's House of Lords is by far the largest upper house in the world. Country profiles. Add NationMaster content to your website. Copy code below and paste it into your website. Adblocker detected! Please consider reading this notice. We need money to operate the site, and almost all of it comes from our online advertising. Administrative divisions. Washington, DC. Cabinet appointed by the president.
Cabinet appointed by the president with Senate approval. President Barack H. Government type. Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition. International organization participation. Judicial branch. Court of Appeal chief justice is appointed by the president ; High Court sentences according to Muslim law , and Courts Martial. Legal system. Legislative branch.
Political parties and leaders. Political pressure groups and leaders. Republic of Kenya. United States of America. National symbol s. Flag description. United States. Constitutional form. Kenya served as an important mediator in brokering Sudan's north-south separation in February ; Kenya provides shelter to almost a quarter million refugees, including Ugandans who flee across the border periodically to seek protection from Lord's Resistance Army rebels; Kenya works hard to prevent the clan and militia fighting in Somalia from spreading across the border, which has long been open to nomadic pastoralists; the boundary that separates Kenya's and Sudan's sovereignty is unclear in the "Ilemi Triangle," which Kenya has administered since colonial times.
National anthem. Senate - last held on 6 November next to be held on 4 November ; House of Representatives - last held on 6 November next to be held on 4 November Barack H. High Court; Court of Appeal; courts martial; magistrates' courts; religious courts. Courts of Appeal includes the US Court of Appeal for the Federal District and 12 regional appeals courts ; 94 federal district courts in 50 states and territories.
This figure combines government, personal, and employer spending on health care Source: World Health Organization. This entry consists of total electricity generated annually plus imports and minus exports, expressed in kilowatt-hours.
This entry contains the number of people in penal institutions, including pre-trial detainees. Comparability is hampered by differences in local practice, including whether psychiatrically ill offenders are under the authority of the prison administration. People held in a form of custody not under the authority of a prison administration are not included in this figure. Source: International Centre for Prison Studies. This entry contains the number of victims of an unlawful death purposefully inflicted on a person by another person.
Data is originally sourced from either criminal justice or public health systems. The GINI index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income. In Kenya it is This index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income in a country. The index is calculated from the Lorenz curve, in which cumulative family income is plotted against the number of families arranged from the poorest to the richest. The index is the ratio of a the area between a country's Lorenz curve and the 45 degree helping line to b the entire triangular area under the 45 degree line.
The more nearly equal a country's income distribution, the closer its Lorenz curve to the 45 degree line and the lower its Gini index, e. The more unequal a country's income distribution, the farther its Lorenz curve from the 45 degree line and the higher its Gini index, e.
If income were distributed with perfect equality, the Lorenz curve would coincide with the 45 degree line and the index would be zero; if income were distributed with perfect inequality, the Lorenz curve would coincide with the horizontal axis and the right vertical axis and the index would be The annual number of births per 1, people in Kenya is This entry gives the average annual number of births during a year per 1, persons in the population at midyear; also known as crude birth rate.
The birth rate is usually the dominant factor in determining the rate of population growth. It depends on both the level of fertility and the age structure of the population.
With its 45,, people, Kenya is the 30th largest country in the world by population. It is the 49th largest country in the world by area with , square kilometers. MOI acceded to internal and external pressure for political liberalization in late The ethnically fractured opposition failed to dislodge KANU from power in elections in and , 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 following fair and peaceful elections. 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
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