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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	69.57 %		[2nd of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	72.46 %		[2nd of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	51.3 %		[6th of 39]
Illicit drugs widespread harvesting of small plots of marijuana; transit country for South Asian heroin destined for Europe and North America; Indian methaqualone also transits on way to South Africa; significant potential for money-laundering activity given the country's status as a regional financial center; massive corruption, and relatively high levels of narcotics-associated activities
Prisoners	35,278 prisoners		[36th of 168]
Prisoners > Female	3.6%		[80th of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita	111 per 100,000 people		[78th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	39.4%		[50th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	228.1%		[10th of 128]
Software piracy rate	81%		[23rd of 107]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation Kenya is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; children are trafficked within the country for domestic servitude, street vending, agricultural labor, and sexual exploitation; men, women, and girls are trafficked to the Middle East, other African nations, Western Europe, and North America for domestic servitude, enslavement in massage parlors and brothels, and manual labor; Chinese women trafficked for sexual exploitation reportedly transit Nairobi and Bangladeshis may transit Kenya for forced labor in other countries
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating Tier 2 Watch List - Kenya is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List due to a lack of evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking
United States extradition treaties > Citation 47 Stat. 2122. 16 UST 1866.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed	December 22, 1931
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force June 24, 1935 August 19, 1965
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	7.7		[73rd of 143]

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