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Kenya

Kenya Media Stats

Definitions

STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Broadcast media about a half-dozen privately owned TV stations and a state-owned TV broadcaster that operates 2 channels; satellite and cable TV subscription services available; state-owned radio broadcaster operates 2 national radio channels and provides regional and local radio services in multiple languages; a large number of private radio stations, including provincial stations broadcasting in local languages; transmissions of several international broadcasters available 2007
Households with television 17.08% 2002 114th out of 142
Internet > Fixed broadband Internet subscribers per 1000 0.994 2012 158th out of 188
Internet > Internet users > Per 100 people 32.1 2012 121st out of 201
Internet > Internet users per thousand people 313.49 2013 125th out of 205
Internet > Users per 1000 79.47 2007 108th out of 149
Internet users 4 million 2009 58th out of 206
News Agencies > List of news agencies

Kenya News Agency - state-owned, English-language

2012
Personal computers > Per capita 9.16 per 1,000 people 2003 126th out of 155
Radio > List of radio stations

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) - state-owned, networks in English, and Swahili and other indigenous languages

Capital FM - private, music

East FM - private, for Nairobi's Asian listeners


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2012
Telecoms > Mobile cellular subscriptions > Per 100 people 71.89 2012 149th out of 200
Telephones > Mobile cellular > Per capita 501.55 per 1,000 people 2009 5th out of 8
Television > List of TV stations

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) - state-owned

Kenya Television Network (KTN) - private, operated by Standard Group

NTV - private, operated by Nation Media Group


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2012
Television receivers > Per capita 25.49 per 1,000 people 1997 137th out of 178
Televisions per 1000 21.53 2003 153th out of 191

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; World Development Indicators database; International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database, and World Bank estimates.; Wikipedia: List of countries by number of Internet users (Calculated using penetration rate and population data from "Countries and Areas Ranked by Population: 2012" , Population data, International Programs, U.S. Census Bureau, retrieved 26 June 2013). Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Internet World Stats, June 30, 2010; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics; CIA World Factbook, December 2003. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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