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Claim 1: We have 5 million young people who are not working
The latest available government data on labour force is for the first quarter of 2021 and shows Ruto's figure is incorrect.
Kenya National Bureau of Statistics' data shows the youth, aged 15 - 34, who were classified as unemployed was 959,889 while 7.67 million were classified as not in the labour force.
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