Earth is ghetto8 billion roommates, zero security deposit1 in 3 households crushed by housing costsOne hospital bill from bankruptcyIncome inequality: above 0.40 and climbingLife expectancy: don't get too attachedAir quality: questionablePolitical polarization: surgingHomicide rates: location-dependentNow scoring 9 metrics — Gini coefficient addedRecommendation: do not move in

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Country Dossier

Kenya

Cooked Index
35/ 100
Global Rank
25/ 72
25th Most Cooked
Top 3 Pain Points
  • Life expectancy#8
  • Housing cost burden#9
  • Homicide rate#16
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Overview

Every country has a weak point. Kenya's happens to be housing policy, where housing cost burden ranks worse than 88% of the 72 countries on this list. Political institutions and public health policy aren't doing much better, landing at the 50th and 89th percentiles respectively. Overall, that puts Kenya at #25 — #25 Most Cooked.

Overall score: 35/100 — 8 points above the global median of 27 (higher = more cooked). Where the system is holding up: billionaires hoarded (0 billionaires) — better than 97% of countries tracked. The story here isn't the country — it's the housing policy stack behind these numbers.

Sources: OECD Affordable Housing Database (HC1.2) (2024) · V-Dem + Global Peace Index (2025) · UN World Population Prospects / WHO (2024)

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