The city of Nairobi: population changes and pattern

Abstract

Gives the pattern of population distribution, as based on the 1969 Census, and outlines the changes in the demographic situation of the city's population. A comparison with the 1962 Census shows us a changing balance between the African and non-African section of the population and some changes in the age-sex structure of the city. The gross pattern of population distribution is determined by a number of factors, i.a. the existing pattern of land use in the environments of Nairobi area (in the southern sector the Nairobi Game Park and in the eastern sector industrial land partly undeveloped and farm land). There is an extreme concentration within the core areas of the city