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White people in Kenya or White Kenyans are those born in or resident in Kenya who descend from Europeans and/or identify themselves as White.There is currently a minor but relatively prominent White community in Kenya, mainly descended from British, but also to a lesser extent Italian and Greek, migrants dating from the colonial period.
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In 1963, when Kenya became independent, the Jewish population declined further and shifted from largely permanent residents to people on international contracts or long-term business assignments. [ 4 ]
China's population rose from approximately 430 million in 1850 to 580 million in 1953, [52] and now stands at over 1.3 billion. The population of the Indian subcontinent, which was about 125 million in 1750, increased to 389 million in 1941; [53] today, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are collectively home to about 1.63 billion people. [54]
Islam is the religion of 10.91 percent of the population. [1] Most Muslims in Kenya are Sunni, mostly of the Shafii rite. Approximately 8% are non-denominational Muslims, [16] 7% identify themselves as Shia and about 4% identify themselves as Ahmadi Muslims, [17] as well as a small proportion of Ibadism practitioners. [18]
The Maasai population has been reported as numbering 1,189,522 in Kenya in the 2019 census, [1] compared to 377,089 in the 1989 census, though many Maasai view the census as government meddling and therefore either refuse to participate or actively provide false information.
The larger of the individual Bantu groups have populations of several million, e.g.the large majority of West Africa, notably the most populous African nation Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi (25 million), the Baganda [5] people of Uganda (5.5 million as of 2014), the Shona of Zimbabwe (17.6 million as of 2020), the Zulu of ...
However, encouraged by the fear brought by the Mau Mau Uprising, nearly half of Kenya's European population emigrated out of the country after Kenya's independence from colonial rule. [84] Today, they are estimated to be around 30,000. [85]