Joy of more newborn boys amid pain of Kenyan men dying faster

While women are prone to frequent illnesses and visit hospitals more, they are less likely to die than men

For the first time in its history, Kenya registered more than a million births last year with 27,248 more boys than girls.

While this may be good news for the boy child, the data also shows 20,641 more men than women died during the same period. The Economic Survey 2019 shows 1,135,378 births were recorded last year.