Labor
In 2006 Kenya’s labor force was estimated to include about 12 million workers, almost 75 percent in agriculture. The number employed outside small-scale agriculture and pastoralism was about 6 million. In 2004 about 15 percent of the labor force was officially classified as unemployed. Other estimates place Kenya’s unemployment much higher, even up to 40 percent. In recent years, Kenya's labor force has shifted from the countryside to the cities, such as Nairobi, as Kenya becomes increasingly urbanized.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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