🇰🇪 Kenya
Republic of Kenya
Every statistic we track for Kenya — 149 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$8,020
66.4 yrs
4.67
0.45
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Compare Kenya with its neighbours across the same 149 indicators.
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All indicators
📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 3.2 | #51/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.5 | #30/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 20.3 | #193/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 43.9 | #31/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 54.3 | #27/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 101 | #117/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 13,325 | #57/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 31.9% | #186/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 77% | #173/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 46.1% | #13/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 35% | #158/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 121.2 | #78/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 48.1% | #31/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 4% | #50/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 6.7 | #117/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.4 | #167/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 545 | #118/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 36.9 | #145/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 91.5% | #17/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| News Avoidance (Digital News Report) | 46% | #16/48 | 2026 |
| Press Freedom Index | 50.5 | #103/177 | 2026 |
| Social Media as News Source (Digital News Report) | 74% | #4/48 | 2026 |
| Trust in News (Digital News Report) | 68% | #1/48 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 44.5% | #30/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 2.4 | #35/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 16.4 | #29/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 28.2 | #10/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 34.7% | #29/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 87.1% | #65/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 37.7% | #97/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 3.1 | #59/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 26.2% | #70/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 11.2% | #36/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 6.2 | #26/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 50.8 | #85/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 13.3 | #42/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 73.7% | #48/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 4.7 | #110/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.8 | #111/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.2 | #116/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.2 | #5/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.5 | #88/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #95/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 0.9 | #118/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.6 | #144/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 90.9% | #13/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 61.1% | #21/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 12.1% | #69/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 86.7% | #48/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 89.2% | #27/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 63.6% | #20/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 24.8% | #26/39 | 2023 |
| Left–Right Self-placement | 6.4 | #6/53 | 2011–2024 |
| Secular Values | 0.3 | #41/64 | 2022 |
| Self-Expression Values | 0.4 | #34/64 | 2022 |
| Trade Union Membership | 28.7% | #9/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 62.6% | #17/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in parliament | 5.1 | #49/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 71% | #83/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 65.2% | #71/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 5.2 | #59/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 73.9% | #10/39 | 2023 |
| Voting Makes a Difference | 70.1% | #26/54 | 2011–2024 |
| Who Is in Power Makes a Difference | 68.6% | #28/51 | 2011–2021 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.