Personal Remittances / Kenya
Kenya Personal Remittances
Kenya personal remittances data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 4.15%.
COUNTRY: Kenya
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-06-14 04:02:05
GM ECONOMY RATING
Kenya · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
54 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
2.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
17.0 / 20
External stability
11.0 / 15
Financial robustness
8.0 / 15
Structural stability
10.0 / 15
Future capacity
6.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
3.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Kenya · personal remittances data as percent of GDP.
Latest
4.15%
Previous
3.93%
Range avg.
3.09%
Rank
14
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CountryKenya
IndicatorPersonal Remittances
4.15%2024 · Rank 14
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Kenya recorded 4.15% for Personal Remittances in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 0.22 percentage points, from 3.93% to 4.15%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (3.09%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 2.24% in 2015 and the high was 4.15% in 2024.
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