According to the 1989 Kenyan census, approximately 900,000 ethnic Somali people live in Kenya. Although provisional results from the 2009 census reported a much larger number of over 2.3 million Somali residents, they are believed to be inaccurate due to inconsistencies in the gathered data.
The figure has consequently been nullified for an official recount.
SIL Ethnologue reports a breakdown of the Somali population in Kenya from the 1989 census, consisting of 45,098 individuals, as well as an additional number of Somalis identified on a clan basis: 27,244 from the Hawiye clan, 100,400 from the Degodia clan, and 139,597 from the Ogaden clan