Facts in Q&A format

The country’s total public debt was KSh7.3 trillion in November 2020, according to Kenya’s central bank. This debt was made up of KSh3.7 trillion in external debt and KSh3.5 trillion in domestic debt.

The country’s GDP per capita (nominal gross domestic product divided by the mid-year population) was US$1,816.5 in 2019.

The International Monetary Fund estimated that the country’s real gross domestic product grew by 1% in 2020. In 2019, growth was an estimated 5.4%.

From 3 January 2020 to 10 March 2021, there have been 109,164 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,879 deaths, reported to the World Health Organization. This amounts to 203 cases and 3.5 deaths per 100,000 people. 

In 2018, the National Housing Corporation and the State Department for Housing built 180 and 250 units respectively for a total of 430 units or dwellings. According to the Statistical Abstract 2019, published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, these buildings were constructed in Nairobi,…

In 2019, the growing of crops, animal production and support activities to agriculture contributed KSh3.15 trillion (32.4% of nominal GDP).

If fishing and aquaculture as well as forestry and logging are included, the agriculture, forestry and fishing industry contributed a total of KSh3.33…

In 2019, Kenya produced 366,000 metric tonnes of wheat, according to the Economic Survey 2020. The country consumed 1,988,000 tonnes of wheat as food. A total of 19,000 tonnes were used as seed and 148,000 tonnes had “other” uses. Another 98,000 tonnes were lost.

According to provisional…

Nairobi City County generated an estimated 3 million tonnes and collected an estimated 1.6 million tonnes of solid waste in 2019. These numbers are provisional.

In 2019, there were 2.7 million children enrolled in pre-primary centres in Kenya, close to 10.1 million in primary schools and 3.3 million in secondary schools, for a total of 16.1 million, according to provisional official data.