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Kenya Nairobi Urban Profile
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Number of pages
36
Publication date
2005
Publisher
UN-Habitat

Kenya: Nairobi Urban Profile

Nairobi has the highest growth rates per annum compared to the other growth rates in Africa. 75% of the urban population growth is absorbed by informal settlements. The number of urban population living in slums will double in the next 15years.

Informal settlements cover only 5% of the total residential land area of the city, but they are inhabited by at least half of the city’s population.