Country comparison: Kenya / Nigeria

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Kenya and Nigeria. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Kenya	Nigeria
Region:	Eastern Africa	Western Africa
Area:	580,370 km²	923,770 km²
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1963 AD	1960 AD
Capital:	Nairobi	Abuja

Population

Details for Kenya and Nigeria

	Kenya	Nigeria
Population:	53,006,000	213,401,000
Inhabitants/km²:	91.3	231.0
Life expectancy males:	Ø 60 years	Ø 52 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 65 years	Ø 53 years
Average age:	Ø 20.0 years	Ø 18.6 years
Birth rate:	28.00 ‰	37.47 ‰
Death rate:	7.46 ‰	13.00 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.19 ‰	-0.21 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Kenya	Nigeria
Political stability:	42	18
Civil rights:	34	23
Health:	13	12
Climate:	90	53
Cost of Living:	82	81
Popularity:	43	38

Economy

Details for Kenya and Nigeria

	Kenya	Nigeria
Currency:	Kenian schilling (1 KES = 100 Cents)	naira (1 NGN =100 Kobo)
Unemployment rate:	5.5 %	5.8 %
Inflation rate:	6.11 %	16.95 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	39.56 %	39.81 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	37.20 %	34.80 %
Average income:	2,080 US$	2,080 US$
Corruption index:	68 (bad)	76 (very bad)

	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.	NGA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	110,347 M US$	2.08 M US$	440,834 M US$	2.07 M US$
Gross national product:	110,401 M US$	2.08 M US$	444,028 M US$	2.08 M US$
Exported goods:	11,825 M US$	0.22 M US$	50,856 M US$	0.24 M US$
Imported goods:	21,853 M US$	0.41 M US$	66,107 M US$	0.31 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Kenya and Nigeria

	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.	NGA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	161,452 km	3.05 km	195,000 km	0.91 km
Railways:	3,819 km	0.07 km	3,798 km	0.02 km
Harbours:	26	0.0005	791	0.0037
Passenger airports:	16	0.0003	22	0.0001

Energy balance

Details for Kenya and Nigeria

	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.	NGA: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	28.94 bn kWh	546,037.26 kWh	102.41 bn kWh	479,908.74 kWh
Energy consumption:	8.24 bn kWh	155,511.83 kWh	24.61 bn kWh	115,329.56 kWh
Energy production:	10.71 bn kWh	201,978.61 kWh	29.32 bn kWh	137,414.71 kWh
Energy export:	16.00 m kWh	301.85 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	277.00 m kWh	5,225.86 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	22.28 m t	420.36 t	115.28 m t	540.19 t

Telecommunication

Details for Kenya and Nigeria

	Kenya	Nigeria
International dialing:	+254	+234
Internet domain:	.ke	.ng

	KEN total	KEN per 1000 inh.	NGA total	NGA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	61,096	1	106,385	0
Mobile cellulars:	65,085,720	1228	195,128,265	914
Internet server:	71,018	1	1,234	0
Internet users:	15,636,656	295	75,757,470	355
Broadband Internet:	788,996	15	65,917	0

Healthcare system

Details for Kenya and Nigeria

	Kenya	Nigeria
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	1.40	0.50
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.20	0.38
Diabetes:	3.1 %	3.1 %
Malaria:	70.1 %	291.9 %
HIV:	1.17 %	0.44 %
Tuberculosis:	2.51 ‰	2.19 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	85.0 %	90.0 %
Smokers:	11.1 %	3.7 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Kenya and Nigeria

	Kenya	Nigeria
Daytime temperatures:	27.4 °C	33.3 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	16.5 °C	22.2 °C
Water temperature:	27.0 °C	26.6 °C
Rel. humidity:	66 %	70 %
Rain days:	7.2	7.8
Sunshine hours per day:	7.2	6.3

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Nigeria
Kenya

Native languages

	Kenya	Nigeria
Yoruba:	n/a	21.4 %
Hausa:	n/a	21.1 %
Kikuyu:	20.9 %	n/a
Ibo:	n/a	18.1 %
Luhya:	13.8 %	n/a
Luo:	12.8 %	n/a
Fula:	n/a	11.3 %
Kamba:	11.2 %	n/a
Kalenjin:	10.8 %	n/a
Gusii:	6.1 %	n/a
Ibibio:	n/a	5.6 %
Nyika:	4.8 %	n/a
Kanuri:	n/a	4.1 %
Edo:	n/a	3.3 %
Tiv:	n/a	2.3 %
Ijo:	n/a	1.8 %
Masai:	1.6 %	n/a
Bura:	n/a	1.6 %
Turkana:	1.4 %	n/a
other:	16.6 %	9.4 %

Religions

	Kenya	Nigeria
Christianity:	82.5 %	40.0 %
Islam:	11.1 %	50.0 %
Native religions:	1.6 %	10.0 %
Nondenominational:	2.4 %	n/a
other:	2.4 %	0.0 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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