Employment Rate / Kenya
Kenya Employment Rate
Kenya employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 63.71%.
COUNTRY: Kenya
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-18 03:30:08
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 · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
Latest
63.71%
Previous
63.72%
Range avg.
65.55%
Rank
24
Countries by employment rate
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CountryKenya
IndicatorEmployment Rate
63.71%2025 · Rank 24
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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 63.71% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.01 percentage points, from 63.72% to 63.71%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (65.55%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 63.32% in 2020 and the high was 72.35% in 2016.
Comparison
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