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The middle-class demographic is complex in terms of variables and indices of economic and social status.

It is a discussion I've had with several people, and we never agree on the size of the middle class in Kenya. The middle class is the demographic between the upper and lower classes. The imaginary "poverty line" is the equator of economic status, dividing the upper North and lower South.

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