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Africa > Kenya > Labor

KENYAN LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 16% [18th of 77]
Compensation of employees > % of expense 49.54 % Time series [6th of 97]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 73.41 [15th of 162]
Employees, industry, female > % of female employment 9.6 % Time series [72nd of 86]
Employees, industry, male > % of male employment 23.3 % Time series [66th of 86]
Employees, services, female > % of female employment 74.7 % Time series [40th of 86]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 18.6 % Time series [35th of 94]
Employment in industry > % of total employment 19.5 % Time series [65th of 94]
Female economic activity growth 0% [113rd of 156]
force with tertiary education > % of total 10.1 % Time series [1st of 52]
force, total 15,497,540 Time series [34th of 184]
Labor force 1,963,000 Time series [94th of 132]
Labor force > By occupation agriculture 75% Time series
Regulation 34 [114th of 123]
Regulation > Employment Conditions 53 [99th of 123]
Rigidity of employment index 28 Time series [112nd of 166]
Total work time > Males 500 minutes [4th of 29]
Unemployment rate 40% Time series [5th of 107]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 21.3 % Time series [5th of 101]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 56,000,000 $ Time series [79th of 149]

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SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; World Development Indicators database; Economic activity rate and economically active population, by sex, thirteen age groups, 1950-2010 (ILO estimates and projections) are data from the International Labour Union (ILO). Source details: ILO, Economically Active Population, 1950-2010, fourth edition, diskette database (Geneva, 1997). The latest set of estimates and projections covering the period 1950-2010 (4th edition) was released by ILO in December 1996. These data are updated every five-ten years by ILO and a new set of these data is in preparation; calculated on the basis of data on the economically active population and total population from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Estimates and Projections of the Economically Active Population, 1950-2010, 4th ed., rev. 2. Database. Geneva; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; The World Bank Group The original methodology and data come from The Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite this paper as a reference.; The World Bank Group The original methodology and data come from The Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite this paper as a reference; Harvey, Andrew S. 1995 ?Market and Non-Market Productive Activity in Less Developed and Developing Countries: Lessons from Time Use.? Background Paper for Human Development Report 1995. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report, Goldshmidt-Clermont, Luisella, and Elisabetta Pagnossin Aligisakis. 1995. ?Measures of Unrecorded Economic Activities in Fourteen Countries.? Background paper for Human Development Report

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Kenya, Republic of Kenya

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  • Kenyan women work 35% longer than their menfolk.

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