Secrets of the census saga

• INVESTIGATION: How conflicting figures compiled by the Statistics Bureau on the one hand and NSIS on the other, and the surge in population in the North forced the government to shelve results

A document with provisional census results seen by the Sunday Nation indicates that Central and Nyanza provinces have the lowest population growth rate of 24.48 per cent and 30.36 per cent respectively.

Nairobi has the highest growth rate of 52.11 closely followed by North Eastern at 44.92 per cent. Rift Valley is third with 43.66 per cent. Nairobi is also the most densely populated province with 4,684 persons per square kilometre.

But Rift Valley tops in the number of people with 10 million, followed by Eastern with 6.1 million while Nyanza is third with 5.7 million.

Central is fourth with 4.8 million, followed by Western at 4.7 million, Coast with 3.4 million and Nairobi 3.3 million. North Eastern has the lowest population of 1.4 million people.