GDP per capita more than doubles to Sh198,078

The number of persons living in poverty fell to 16.4 million in the year ended June 2016 from16.6 million persons 10 years earlier. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Kenya's annual average wealth per person or GDP per capita more than doubled over the past decade, helped by the slowest growth in population since independence.

An analysis of the projected gross domestic product (GDP) and the latest population estimates puts the wealth per capita at about Sh198,078, a growth of 137.52 percent over Sh83,393 in 2009.

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