The demography of Kenya is monitored by the Kenyan National Bureau of Statistics.

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is a

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in East Africa. Its total population was at 47 558,296 as of the 2019 census. A national census was conducted in 1999, although the results were never released. A new census was undertaken in 2009, but turned out to be controversial, as the questions about ethnic affiliation seemed inappropriate after the

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of the previous year. Preliminary results of the census were published in 2010. Kenya's population was reported as 47.6 million during the 2019 census compared to 38.6 million inhabitants 2009, 30.7 million in 1999, 21.4 million in 1989, and 15.3 million in 1979. This was an increase of a factor of 2.5 over 30 years, or an average growth rate of more than 3 percent per year. The population growth rate has been reported as reduced during the 2000s, and was estimated at 2.7 percent (as of 2010), resulting in an estimate of 46.5 million in 2016.

History

Ethnic groups

Kenya has a very diverse population that includes most major ethnic, racial and linguistic groups found in Africa.

Bantu Bantu may refer to: *Bantu languages, constitute the largest sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages *Bantu peoples, over 400 peoples of Africa speaking a Bantu language * Bantu knots, a type of African hairstyle *Black Association for National ...

and

Nilotic The Nilotic peoples are people indigenous to the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages. They inhabit South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania. Among these are the Burun-sp ...

populations together constitute around 92% of the nation's inhabitants. People from Asian or European heritage living in Kenya are estimated at around 200,000. Kenya's largest ethnic group is the

Kikuyu Kikuyu or Gikuyu (Gĩkũyũ) mostly refers to an ethnic group in Kenya or its associated language. It may also refer to: * Kikuyu people, a majority ethnic group in Kenya *Kikuyu language, the language of Kikuyu people *Kikuyu, Kenya, a town in Cent ...

. They make up less than a fifth of the population. Since Kenyan independence in 1963, Kenyan politics have been characterized by ethnic tensions and rivalry between the larger groups. This devolved into

in the 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis. In Kenya's last colonial census of 1962, population groups residing in the territory included European, African and Asian individuals. According to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, Kenya had a population of 47,564,296 by 2019. The largest native ethnic groups were the

(8,148,668),

Luhya Luhya or Abaluyia may refer to: * Luhya people * Luhya language Luhya (; also Luyia, Luhia or Luhiya) is a Bantu language of western Kenya. Dialects The various Luhya tribes speak several related languages and dialects, though some of them are ...

(6,823,842),

Kalenjin Kalenjin may refer to: * Kalenjin people The Kalenjin are a group of tribes designated as Highland Nilotes and are descended from Maliri people ''(thus related to Daasanach of Ethiopia.)'' The Kalenjin are cousins with Datooga people of Tan ...

(6,358,113),

Luo Luo may refer to: Luo peoples and languages *Luo peoples, an ethno-linguistic group of eastern and central Africa **Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania or Joluo, an ethnic group in western Kenya, eastern Uganda, and northern Tanzania. *** Luoland, th ...

(5,066,966),

Kamba Kamba may refer to: *Kamba people The Kamba or Akamba (sometimes called Wakamba) people are a Bantu ethnic group who predominantly live in the area of Kenya stretching from Nairobi to Tsavo and north to Embu, in the southern part of the f ...

(4,663,910),

Somalis The Somalis ( so, Soomaalida 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒆𐒖, ar, صوماليون) are an ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa who share a common ancestry, culture and history. The Lowland East Cushitic Somali language is the shared ...

(2,780,502),

Kisii Kisii may refer to: * Kisii, Kenya, the inaugural capital city of Kenya * Kisii County, one of the 47 counties of Kenya * Gucha District, in Kenya, also known as ''South Kisii District'' * Nyamira District, in Kenya, also known as ''North Kisii Di ...

(2,703,235), Mijikenda (2,488,691),

Meru Meru may refer to: Geography Kenya * Meru, Kenya, a city in Meru County, Kenya ** Meru County, created by the merger of *** Meru Central District *** Meru North District *** Meru South District * Meru National Park, a Kenyan wildlife park T ...

(1,975,869),

Maasai Maasai may refer to: * Maasai people *Maasai language * Maasai mythology * MAASAI (band) See also * Masai (disambiguation) * Massai Massai (also known as: Masai, Massey, Massi, Mah–sii, Massa, Wasse, Wassil or by the nickname "Big Foot" Mas ...

(1,189,522), and Turkana (1,016,174). Foreign-rooted populations included Asians (90,527), Europeans (42,868) with Kenyan citizenship, 26,753 without, and Kenyan Arabs (59,021). The number of ethnic categories and sub-categories recorded in the census has changed significantly over time, expanding from 42 in 1969 to more than 120 in 2019.

Bantu peoples

Bantus are the single largest population division in Kenya. The term ''Bantu'' denotes widely dispersed but related peoples that speak south-central Niger–Congo languages. Originally from Cameroon-Nigeria border regions, Bantus began a millennium-long series of migrations referred to as the Bantu expansion that first brought them south into East Africa about 2,000 years ago. Most Bantu are farmers. Some of the prominent Bantu groups in Kenya include the

, the

, and the Mijikenda. The Swahili people are descended from Wangozi Bantu peoples that intermarried with Arab immigrants.A. Okoth & A. Ndaloh, ''Peak Revision K.C.P.E. Social Studies'', (East African Publishers), p.60-61.S. Wandibba et al, Social Studies STD 6, (East African Publishers), p.45-47. The Kikuyu, who are one of the biggest tribes in Kenya, seem to have assimilated a significant number of Cushitic speakers. Evidence from their Y DNA shows that 18% of Kikuyu carry the E1b1b Y DNA.

Nilotic peoples

Nilotes are the second-largest group of peoples in Kenya. They speak Nilo-Saharan languages and went south into East Africa from

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and

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by way of

South Sudan South Sudan (; din, Paguot Thudän), officially the Republic of South Sudan ( din, Paankɔc Cuëny Thudän), is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia, Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the ...

. Most Nilotes in Kenya are historically

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. The most prominent of these groups include the

, the Maasai, the Samburu, the Turkana, and the Kalenjin. As with the Bantu, some Nilotic systems of governance (such as Ibinda of the Nandi) bear similarities with those of their Cushitic neighbors (such as the Gada system of the Oromo).Robert O. Collins, ''The southern Sudan in historical perspective'', (Transaction Publishers: 2006), p.9-10.

Cushitic peoples

Cushitic The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and the Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania. As o ...

peoples form a small minority of Kenya's population. They speak languages belonging to the

Afroasiatic The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic su ...

family and originally came from

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

and

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...

. However, some large ethnic Somali clans are native to the area that used be known as NFD in Kenya. These people are not from Somalia but share the same ethnicity as the majority in Somalia. Most are herdsmen and have almost entirely adopted Islam.S. Wandibba et al, p.19-20. Cushites are concentrated in the northernmost North Eastern Province, which borders Somalia.Godfrey Mwakikagile, ''Kenya: identity of a nation'', (Godfrey Mwakikagile: 2007), p.99-102. The Cushitic peoples are divided into two groups: the Southern Cushites and the Eastern Cushites. *The Southern Cushites were the second-earliest inhabitants of Kenya after the indigenous hunter-gatherer groups,H. Okello Ayot, ''Topics in East African history, 1000–1970'' (

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: 1976), p.13. and the first of the Cushitic-speaking peoples to migrate from their homeland in the Horn of Africa about 2,000 years ago. They were progressively displaced in a southerly direction or absorbed, or both, by the incoming Nilotic and Bantu groups until they wound up in

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...

. There are no longer any Southern Cushites left in Kenya. (The Dahalo were originally pre-Cushitic peoples who adopted the language of their dominant Southern Cushitic neighbors sometime toward the last millennium BC.Randall L. Pouwels, ''Horn and Crescent: Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800–1900'', Volume 53 of ''African Studies'', (Cambridge University Press: 2002), p.9.). *The Eastern Cushites include the Oromo and the Somali. After the Northern Frontier District (North Eastern Province) was handed over to Kenyan nationalists at the end of British colonial rule in Kenya, Somalis in the region fought the Shifta War against Kenyan troops to join their kin in the Somali Republic to the north. Although the war ended in a cease-fire,

in the region still identify and maintain close ties with their kin in Somalia and see themselves as one people, since like most borders in Africa and Asia, national borders were arbitrarily drawn in colonial European countries, especially during the Scramble for Africa An entrepreneurial community, they established themselves in the business sector, particularly in

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, Nairobi.

Indians

Asians living in Kenya are descended from

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n migrants. Significant Asian migration to Kenya began between 1896 and 1901 when some 32,000 indentured labourers were recruited from

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to build the

Kenya-Uganda Railway The Uganda Railway was a metre-gauge railway system and former British state-owned railway company. The line linked the interiors of Uganda and Kenya with the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa in Kenya. After a series of mergers and splits, the lin ...

. The majority of Kenyan Asians hail from the

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and

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising a ...

regions.Herzig, Pascale, South Asians in Kenya: Gender, Generation and Changing Identities in Diaspora, LIT Verlag Münster, 2006, page 28 The community grew significantly during the colonial period, and in the 1962 census Asians made up a third of the population of Nairobi and consisted of 176,613 people across the country. Since

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large numbers have emigrated due to race-related tensions with the Bantu and Nilotic majority. Those that remain are principally concentrated in the business sector, and Asians continue to form one of the more prosperous communities in the region. According to the 2019 Census, Kenyan Asians number 47,555 people, while Asians without Kenyan citizenship number 42,972 individuals. In 2017, they were officially recognised as the 44th tribe of Kenya.

Europeans

Europeans in Kenya are primarily the descendants of

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migrants during the colonial period, there is also a significant expat population of Europeans living in Kenya. Economically, virtually all Europeans in Kenya belong to the middle- and upper-middle-class. Nowadays, only a small minority of them are landowners (livestock and game ranchers, horticulturists and farmers), with the majority working in the tertiary sector: in air transport, finance, import, and hospitality. Apart from isolated individuals such as anthropologist and conservationist

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, F.R.S., who died in 2022, Kenyan white people have virtually completely retreated from Kenyan politics, and are no longer represented in public service and parastatals, from which the last remaining staff from colonial times retired in the 1970s. According to the 2019 Census, Kenyan Europeans number 42,868 people, while Europeans without Kenyan citizenship number 26,753 individuals. 0.3% of the population of Kenya is from Asia or Europe.

Arabs

Arab The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...

s form a small but historically important minority ethnic group in Kenya. They are principally concentrated along the coast in cities such as

Mombasa Mombasa ( ; ) is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean. It was the first capital of the British East Africa, before Nairobi was elevated to capital city status. It now serves as the capital of Mombasa County. The town is ...

. A Muslim community, they primarily came from

Oman Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of t ...

and

Hadhramaut Hadhramaut ( ar, حَضْرَمَوْتُ \ حَضْرَمُوتُ, Ḥaḍramawt / Ḥaḍramūt; Hadramautic: 𐩢𐩳𐩧𐩣𐩩, ''Ḥḍrmt'') is a region in South Arabia, comprising eastern Yemen, parts of western Oman and southern Saud ...

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

, and are engaged in trade. Arabs are locally referred to as ''Washihiri'' or, less commonly, as simply ''Shihiri'' in the Bantu Swahili language, Kenya's lingua franca. According to the 2019 Census, Kenyan Arabs number 59,021 people.

Languages

Kenya's various ethnic groups typically speak their mother tongues within their own communities. The two

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English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

and Swahili, serve as the main lingua franca between the various ethnic groups. English is widely spoken in commerce, schooling and government. Peri-urban and rural dwellers are less multilingual, with many in rural areas speaking only their native languages. According to '' Ethnologue'', there are a total of 69 languages spoken in Kenya. Most belong to two broad language families: Niger-Congo ( Bantu branch) and Nilo-Saharan ( Nilotic branch), which are spoken by the country's Bantu and Nilotic populations, respectively. The Cushitic and Arab ethnic minorities speak languages belonging to the separate Afro-Asiatic family, with the Indian and European residents speaking languages from the

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family.

Population

According to , the total population was in compared to 6,077,000 in 1950, and around 1,700,000 in 1900. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 42.5%, 54.9% between the ages of 15 and 65, and 2.7% was 65 years or older. Worldometers estimates the total population at 48,466,928 inhabitants, a 29th global rank. Population by Sex and Age Group (Census 24.VIII.2009): Population by Sex and Age Group (Census 24.VIII.2019):

Population by province in 2019 census

Population by census year

Fertility and Births (Demographic and Health Surveys)

Total Fertility Rate (TFR) (Wanted Fertility Rate) and Crude Birth Rate (CBR): Fertility data as of 2014 (DHS Program):

UN population projections

Numbers are in thousands. UN medium variant projections *2015 46,332 *2020 52,563 *2025 59,054 *2030 65,928 *2035 73,257 *2040 80,975 *2045 88,907 *2050 96,887

Vital statistics

Registration of vital events is in Kenya not complete. The Population Department of the United Nations prepared the following estimates.

Other population statistics

Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review in 2022. *One birth every 21 seconds *One death every 2 minutes *One net migrant every 53 minutes *Net gain of one person every 26 seconds The following demographic are from the CIA World Factbook unless otherwise indicated.

Population

:55,864,655 (2022 est.) :47,564,296 (2019 census )

Age structure

:''0-14 years:'' 38.71% (male 10,412,321/female 10,310,908) :''15-24 years:'' 20.45% (male 5,486,641/female 5,460,372) :''25-54 years:'' 33.75% (male 9,046,946/female 9,021,207) :''55-64 years:'' 4.01% (male 1,053,202/female 1,093,305) :''65 years and over:'' 3.07% (2020 est.) (male 750,988/female 892,046) :''0-14 years:'' 39.03% (male 9,474,968 /female 9,416,609) :''15-24 years:'' 19.61% (male 4,737,647 /female 4,752,896) :''25-54 years:'' 34.27% (male 8,393,673 /female 8,193,800) :''55-64 years:'' 4% (male 894,371 /female 1,040,883) :''65 years and over:'' 3.08% (male 640,005 /female 852,675) (2019 est.)

Population growth rate

:2.12% (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 38th :1.57% (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 67th

Birth rate

:26.39 births/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 43rd :22.6 births/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 66th

Death rate

:5.01 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 196th :6.7 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 137th

Total fertility rate The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if: # she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime # she were t ...

:3.29 children born/woman (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 44th :2.81 children born/woman (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 59th

Median age

:total: 20 years. Country comparison to the world: 195th :male: 19.9 years :female: 20.1 years (2020 est.) :total: 20 years. Country comparison to the world: 191st :male: 19.9 years :female: 20.2 years (2018 est.)

Mother's mean age at first birth

:20.3 years (2014 est.) :note: median age at first birth among women 25-29

Contraceptive prevalence rate

:59.7% (2019) :61.6% (2016)

Net migration rate

:-0.19 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 111st :-0.2 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.) Country comparison to the world: 109th

Dependency ratio The dependency ratio is an age-population ratio of those typically not in the labor force (the ''dependent'' part ages 0 to 14 and 65+) and those typically in the labor force (the ''productive'' part ages 15 to 64). It is used to measure the press ...
s

:total dependency ratio: 78.3 (2015 est.) :youth dependency ratio: 73.7 (2015 est.) :elderly dependency ratio: 4.6 (2015 est.) :

potential support ratio The potential support ratio (PSR) is the number of people age 15–64 per one older person aged 65 or older. This ratio describes the burden placed on the working population (unemployment and children are not considered in this measure) by the no ...

: 21.7 (2015 est.)

Urbanization

:urban population: 29% of total population (2022) :rate of urbanization: 4.09% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) :urban population: 27% of total population (2018) :rate of urbanization: 4.23% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)

Life expectancy at birth

:total population: 69.69 years. Country comparison to the world: 175th :male: 67.98 years :female: 71.43 years (2022 est.) :total population: 64.6 years (2018 est.) :male: 63.1 years (2018 est.) :female: 66.1 years (2018 est.)

Education expenditures

:5.1% of GDP (2020) Country comparison to the world: 60th

Literacy

definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.) :total population: 81.5% :male: 85% :female: 78.2% (2018) :total population: 78% (2015 est.) :male: 81.1% (2015 est.) :female: 74.9% (2015 est.)

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)

:total: 5 years (1970) to 11 years (2009) :male: 11 years (2009) :female: 11 years (2009)

Health

Like the

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in general, Kenya is plagued by high infant mortality, low life expectancy, malnourishment (32% of population) and

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. While these concerns remain grave, a trend towards improvement is reported in the period of 2006 to 2010:

Infant mortality Infant mortality is the death of young children under the age of 1. This death toll is measured by the infant mortality rate (IMR), which is the probability of deaths of children under one year of age per 1000 live births. The under-five morta ...

was at estimated at 59.26 deaths/1,000 live births as of 2006, decreasing to 54.7 deaths/1,000 live births as of 2010.

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was estimated at 48.9 years as of 2006, and has risen to 64 years in 2012. According to 2008–09 Kenyan government survey, total fertility was 4.6, contraception usage among married women was 46 percent.

Total fertility rate The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if: # she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime # she were t ...

has decreased 4.91 children per woman (2006 estimate), to 4.38 (2010 estimate). Literacy (age 7 and over) was estimated at 85.1% in 2003 (male: 90.6%, female: 79.7%).

Major infectious diseases

:degree of risk: very high (2020) :food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever :vectorborne diseases: malaria, dengue fever, and Rift Valley fever :water contact diseases: schistosomiasis :animal contact diseases: rabies

Religion

CIA World Factbook estimate: * Christian 85.5% **

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33.4% **

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20.6% **

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20.4% ** African Instituted Churches 7% **Other Christian 4.1% * Islam 10.9% *Other 1.8% *None 1.6% *Unspecified 0.2%

References

Attribution: *

External links

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History

Ethnic groups

Bantu peoples

Nilotic peoples

Cushitic peoples

Indians

Europeans

Arabs

Languages

Population

Population by province in 2019 census

Population by census year

Fertility and Births (Demographic and Health Surveys)

UN population projections

Vital statistics

Other population statistics

Population

Age structure

Population growth rate

Birth rate

Death rate

Total fertility rate The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if: # she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime # she were t ...

Median age

Mother's mean age at first birth

Contraceptive prevalence rate

Net migration rate

Dependency ratio The dependency ratio is an age-population ratio of those typically not in the labor force (the ''dependent'' part ages 0 to 14 and 65+) and those typically in the labor force (the ''productive'' part ages 15 to 64). It is used to measure the press ...s

Urbanization

Life expectancy at birth

Education expenditures

Literacy

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)

Health

Major infectious diseases

Religion

See also

References

Further reading

External links

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