Nearly half of married women in Kenya don't want more children

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics Director-General Macdonald Obudho during the release of the Demographic and Health Survey report at KICC, Nairobi on January 17, 2023. [TV screen grab]

Forty-six per cent of married women in Kenya between the ages of 15 and 49 years have undergone sterilisation, (a permanent surgical procedure to prevent pregnancy known as tubal ligation), data from the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2022 report shows.

The survey, the seventh of such released on Tuesday, January 17 in Nairobi, also shows that fertility rates in Kenya have dropped to 3.4 per cent in 2022 from 3.9 per cent in 2014.