SS11 - Assignment #3

The serious problem that Kenya has is most people are caught in the cycle of poverty, which they have high birth rate and they don’t have enough money to pay for the national debt. Most of the lands in Kenya had been used to plant things that will be used to manufacture，like cotton and coffee beans. Some of the other lands are used for tourism, it causes them have less food to eat and also causes lots of health problems such as malnutrition which “Nearly 20 percent of children under 5 are underweight”. The literacy rate of Kenya also is very low that causes “the country’s unemployment rate is 40 percent”, which is also in a low percentage. The strategies that I suggest first is to expand or transform some of the lands from manufacturing to farming to grow more food to help them to keep healthy and reduce the malnutrition problems. The second way is to import some foreign teachers come from different developed countries to Kenya to educate the children and teenagers how to read and write to improve their literacy rate and the standard of living of the whole country. By comparing the data of Canada and Kenya on page 399, we can find that there is a big discrepancy between the life expectancy and the total population of Kenya and Canada. The total population of Canada is about 3 billion and Kenya’s population is 4 billion, it seems like there is no big different between their number of total populations, but Canada have longer life expectancy than Kenya that Canada’s life expectancy is 81 years old and Kenya’s life expectancy is 57 years old. Canada has longer life expectancy than Kenya is because they have much better health care and well living condition than Kenya. Although Kenya has more population than Canada, their death rate still higher than Canada which makes their life expectancy generally lower.