Kenya polygamy highest among pastoralists

A Turkana West pastoralist family in Lokichoggio. The county is among those with the highest number of polygamous unions. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Pastoral communities are the most polygamous in Kenya, a new national survey by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows.

The survey, which sampled a total of 23.5 million individuals across the 47 counties, showed that at the national level, 6.2 per cent of the adult population are in polygamous unions, about 54.4 per cent in monogamous partnerships, 27 per cent never married and 6.9 per cent are widowed.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.