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Kenya in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.

Capital: Nairobi · Region: Sub-Saharan Africa · Income group: Lower middle income

Kenya recorded GDP per capita: 2,363 (2025), ranking 171 of 212 worldwide; Population: 57.53 million (2025), ranking 26 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 63.8 (2024), ranking 197 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 4.07% (2025), ranking 59 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.

Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+17080%) and Infant mortality the largest decrease (-70%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.

It sits close to the world median across the measures below. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 9 of 19 comparable series are higher and 10 are lower.

Its population of 57.53 million (2025) makes it a mid-sized population by the standards of this dataset.

All 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later.

Indicators

IndicatorLatestYearChange
GDP135,941,278,878.822025+17080.2%
GDP per capita2,362.862025+2198.0%
GDP growth4.63%2025+159.6%
Population57,532,4932025+647.6%
Population growth1.93%2025-48.3%
Urban population32.21%2025+291.2%
Inflation4.07%2025+227.2%
Life expectancy63.832024+31.7%
Infant mortality34.22024-69.7%
Education spending4.02%2024+2.4%
CO2 per capita0.382024+16.3%
GDP (PPP)403,644,276,634.412025+919.6%
GDP per capita (PPP)7,015.942025+305.7%
Labor participation67.39%2025-7.7%
Unemployment5.45%2025+96.0%
Electricity access77%2024+606.4%
Internet users34.98%2024
Forest area6.22%2023-8.3%
Health spending4.35%2023+20.1%
Source. World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0). Latest data revision: 2026-09-13. Country page on data.worldbank.org.