The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics on Friday released
three more reports of the 2019 Population and Housing Census.
According to the report on distribution of population by ethnicity, 33,538 people did not want to
identify with any ethnic group while 183,023 stated that they are just Kenyans.
Kenya’s total population stands at 47,564, 296 which is
inclusive of 463,562 non-Kenyans.
Kikuyu is the largest ethnic community with 8,148,668
people and the smallest is the Dahalo at 575.
The Luhya who are grouped into 19 sub-communities
are the second-largest bloc with 6,823,842 people. They are followed by
the Kalenjin who number 6,358,113.
At 5,066,966 people, the Luo take the fourth spot and
Kamba’s 4,663,910 at fifth.
Kenyan Somali are 2,780,502 while the Kisii stand at
2,703,235. The Mijikenda are 2,488,691 and Meru 1,975,869.
Anticipating the heat that will come out of these results, National
Treasury and Planning CS Ukur Yatani warned the media against being obsessed
with the aspects of the report.
“I hope and it’s my belief that the Press will not only
highlight about ethnicity. We believe in one country, one heritage, one
heritage, one direction,” said Yatani, noting that Kenya had come of age.