Kenya

Founding president and liberation struggle icon Jomo KENYATTA led Kenya from independence in 1963 until his death in 1978, when President Daniel Toroitich arap MOI took power in a constitutional succession. The country was a de facto one-party state from 1969 until 1982 when the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) made itself the sole legal party in Kenya. MOI acceded to internal and external pressure for political liberalization in late 1991. The ethnically fractured opposition failed to dislodge KANU from power in elections in 1992 and 1997, which were marred by violence and fraud, but were viewed as having generally reflected the will of the Kenyan people. President MOI stepped down in December 2002 following fair and peaceful elections. Mwai KIBAKI, running as the candidate of the multiethnic, united opposition group, the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC), defeated KANU candidate Uhuru KENYATTA and assumed the presidency following a campaign centered on an anticorruption platform. KIBAKI's NARC coalition splintered in 2005 over the constitutional review process. Government defectors joined with KANU to form a new opposition coalition, the Orange Democratic Movement, which defeated the government's draft constitution in a popular referendum in November 2005. KIBAKI's reelection in December 2007 brought charges of vote rigging from ODM candidate Raila ODINGA and unleashed two months of violence in which as many as 1,500 people died. UN-sponsored talks in late February produced a powersharing accord bringing ODINGA into the government in the restored position of prime minister.
==Economical characteristics==
* Currency: Kenyan shilling (ISO code: KES)
* Central bank discount rate: NA%
* Commercial banks lending rate: 14.8% (31 December 2009 )
* Stock of money (M1): $6.068 billion (31 December 2008)
* Quasi money (with M1 makes M2): $5.468 billion (31 December 2008)
===Statistics===
Statistic / Year 	1999 	2000 	2001 	2002 	2003 	2004 	2005 	2006 	2007 	2008
GDP (million USD)World Bank. "Kenya: GDP", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-10-04. 	12 896	12 691	12 987	13 149	14 904	16 096	18 738	22 502	27 124	30 355
Govt. debt (% of GDP)World Bank. "Kenya: government debt", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-10-04. 	52.644	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Govt. revenue (% of GDP)World Bank. "Kenya: government revenue", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-10-04. 	19.645	19.660	19.051	21.984	16.705	19.987	20.230	18.354	18.814	19.479
Govt. expenses (% of GDP)World Bank. "Kenya: government expenses", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-10-04.	 	16.773	18.468	18.985	18.906	20.859	18.188	19.748	19.563	21.468
Debt to revenue (years) 	2.680 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
==References==
Note: statistical data was rounded. Different sources may use different methodologies for their estimates. Debt to revenue is calculated by dividing the two variables from their original ('unrounded') values. It represents how long it would a government take to repay its entire debt if it used its whole revenue for this purpose.
==External links==
* Kenya on Wikipedia
* Central bank of Kenya
* Country profile (pdf) from the Enterprise Studies page (part of the The World Bank Group)
* BBC country profile
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