DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 21 -- THE World Bank, a trustworthy source of information and data, says that Kenya is the 10th-poorest country in the world, with people living on less than 3 USD a day.

According to the World Bank/Our World in Data, Kenya ranks 10th globally for the percentage of people living on less than 3 USD a day. This picture of the list of nations analysed demonstrates that extreme poverty is mostly found in Sub-Saharan Africa, as seen in the table.

The top slots are mostly held by countries with low incomes and weak economies. War, bad government, slow industrialisation, and reliance on subsistence farming are just some of the reasons why so many people in countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo (85.3 per cent o...