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Kenya's unemployment rate: Case of when numbers lie?

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A man holds a placard in search of work on a Nairobi street. Could it be that any kind of work is counted as employment? [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Data puts Kenya's unemployment rate below 10 per cent. Checking unemployment in a few developed countries casts doubt on our data.

Could our unemployment rate be that low? In 2021, the World Bank data gave the unemployment rate in European Union at 7.0 per cent, Kenya at 5.6 per cent, the US at 5.3 per cent, South Africa at 28.8 per cent, Tanzania at 2.7 per cent and Rwanda at 13.3 per cent.

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