Every day, 3,400 children are born in Kenya. However, only half
of these will live to the current life expectancy age of 65. While this
is a troubling reality, the chances of living a long life in Kenya today
are better than in the past two decades, when life expectancy was
capped at less than 60 years.
A study published last
month in the scientific journal The Lancet reported that Kenya’s
population, just like the rest of the world’s, is gaining years, and
that means there is something the country is doing right.
Today,
Kenyans are living longer than they did 25 years ago, mainly due to
large drops in death rates, particularly in the last 10 years, for
diseases such as HIV/Aids, malaria, and diarrhoea. A slight drop in
maternal deaths in the country — from 371 deaths per 100,000 live births
in 1990 to 338 in 2015 — has also been hailed for this increase in life
expectancy http://www.nation.co.ke/On-the-road-to-63/1148-3444716-14do05h/
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