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Kenya has sixth highest number of poor people

17.6 million Kenyans live below two dollars a day, as per new World Bank report

Kenya has the sixth-highest number of poor people in the World, a new report by the World Bank shows.

With 17.6 million Kenyans living below two dollars a day, Kenya sits behind India, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Madagascar in the number of people in extreme poverty, according to the report, Poverty and Shared Prosperity, 2018.

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