Poverty Headcount / Kenya
Kenya Poverty Headcount
Kenya poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 39.80%.
COUNTRY: Kenya
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-07-06 05:11:11
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 · poverty headcount data as percent of GDP.
Latest
39.80%
Previous
38.60%
Range avg.
44.25%
Rank
7
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CountryKenya
IndicatorPoverty Headcount
39.80%2022 · Rank 7
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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 39.80% for Poverty Headcount in 2022, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2021, the indicator increased by 1.20 percentage points, from 38.60% to 39.80%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 8 available observations (44.25%).
Across the five latest available observations (2005–2022), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 8 available observations, the low was 36.10% in 2015 and the high was 57.20% in 1992.
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