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Child mortality high despite efforts to curb the trend
For every 100 children born, five die while out of the remaining 95 children, seven never get to celebrate their fifth birthday. Photo/FILE
Posted Thursday, November 5 2009 at 00:00
Fertility rates are much high in rural areas, at five children per woman.
In urban areas, with access to family planning centres and better health care facilities, fertility stands at 2.9.
Only 46 per cent of married women surveyed use family planning methods.
The link between poverty and fertility is another major factor affecting development and planning.
Mr Christopher Omollo, a senior manager in population and social statistics, told Business Daily that North Eastern province had the highest fertility rate of about 5.6 compared to Central and Nairobi at about two.
Slowing down population growth has its merits.
“The government can adequately provide for its citizenry,” said Mr Khang’ati.
The survey, done once every five years, used a sample size of 10,000 households.
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