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What is Kenya’s economic growth rate?

Kenya’s economic performance weakened in 2022. Real GDP grew by 4.8% in 2022, a slowing compared to the strong recovery from the Covid-19 crisis at 7.5% annual growth in 2021. But the growth was stillbroadly in line with expectations and with that seen in the pre-pandemic decade. The adverse weather shock of the past two years has been a major drag on growth, asgrowth in real GDP excluding agriculture was 6.3% in 2022.

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