2,5 Juta Warga Kenya dalam Keluarga Poligami
2.5 million Kenyans live polygamy, of which 700,000 are men and 1.8 million are women. This means in these families there are an average of 2.57 wives to every husband.
With an average of about 3 children per polygamous marriage, this means that about 5.4 million others are involved in the polygamous lifestyle whether they subsequently adopt polygamy or not. The secularist-orientated Kenya Demographic Health Survey (2009) estimates that 60 per cent of women in Kenya are married and 13 per cent of these are in polygamous unions. The same document says about 50 per cent of men in the country are married with 7 per cent of them in polygamous unions, a fairly substantial size of the population.
Not surprisingly, the capital, Nairobi, has the fewest number of women practicing polygamy (2 per cent, though probably higher) and the province with the highest number of women living the lifestyle being the Muslim-dominated North-Eastern Province (36 per cent). Of the non-Muslim provinces - that is to say, tribal-animist and Christian - Western, Nyanza, Rift Valley, and Coast provinces all have proportions of women living polygamously ranging between 15 and 23 per cent, with Nyanza harbouring the highest number of men practicing polygamy in the country.
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