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Kenya overtakes Ghana, Tunisia as size of economy climbs by 25%

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  • Conventional Youth 9 years ago

    Tanzania, East Africa’s second-largest economy after Kenya, plans to revise its GDP data later this year, which may increase the size of the $33 billion economy by a fifth.

  • Conventional Youth 9 years ago

    GDP was measured at $55.2 billion last year from $44.1 billion previously, Zachary Mwangi, acting director-general of the statistics agency, told reporters in the capital, Nairobi. That compares with the World Bank’s estima ...
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  • Goose&Gander 9 years ago

    Nigeria's economy is not 'about US $500 billion' as you mischievously put it, but US$520 billion. Check the World Bank website for confirmation.

  • kusa 9 years ago

    so what ?...can it provide basic services to the Nigerians? Answer is NO..NO.NO!!! this is just pure nonsense. Nigeria can say its economy is 20 trillion , it means nothing...

  • kusa 9 years ago

    OK...First Nigeria , now Kenya...at the end the question is:--are the people better off than they were a year ago? If these countries including Ghana cannot provide basic water , food and electricity all this GDP manipulatio ...
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  • MR. DZIDZINYO KWODZJO 9 years ago

    Ghana accurate G.D.P. of 85Billion Euros.. always measured in European Euros not U.S?D.??Foreign Investment From U.S. and BRIT.PERTROL-GAS CHEVRON MOBILE is ESTIMATED AT $25BIllion CONTRACT?GRANTED and That of HOLLAND,SHE ...
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  • Agyeman 9 years ago

    I always knew that Kenya's economy was larger than Ghana's even before rebasing and even before they begin to factor in their newly found oil riches.Sleepy Ghana lazying off into inconsequence.