High population piles pressure on East African bloc

Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are among the 33 countries whose population is projected to increase at least five-fold by 2100. FILE PHOTO | JEFFF ANGOTE

The East African Community (EAC) is now one of the regions with world’s fastest growing population exacerbating problems of ill health, poverty, environmental degradation, unemployment and declining agricultural productivity.

The latest United Nation’s World Population Prospects report — which has data covering up to 2015 — indicates that Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are among the 33 countries whose population is projected to increase at least five-fold by 2100.

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