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Unemployment rate in Kenya

How hard is it to have a job there?

Kenya's unemployment rate is 5.45 % — #67 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

5.45%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

Source: World Bank open data (GDP growth, GDP/capita, unemployment, government debt)

Unemployment rate in Kenya over time

5.69 %4.17 %2.64 %5.69 % · 20212.64 % · 20072000: 2.88 %2001: 2.88 %2002: 2.92 %2003: 2.87 %2004: 2.84 %2005: 2.74 %2006: 2.67 %2007: 2.64 %2008: 2.75 %2009: 2.82 %2010: 2.79 %2011: 2.70 %2012: 2.68 %2013: 2.76 %2014: 2.77 %2015: 2.76 %2016: 2.76 %2017: 3.54 %2018: 4.28 %2019: 5.01 %2020: 5.61 %2021: 5.69 %2022: 5.57 %2023: 5.41 %2024: 5.49 %2025: 5.45 %2000201220255.45 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#67 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
46 %
57 of 124 countries
Latest move
▼ 0.04 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
0.24 pp
peak 5.69 % in 2021
Full series
▲ 2.56 pp
since 2000

In Africa: #7 of 21vs median 5.25 %: +0.19 pp (worse)

Among 124 countries

6 of 124 countries between 0.78 % and 1.53 %6 of 124 countries between 1.53 % and 2.28 %12 of 124 countries between 2.28 % and 3.03 %16 of 124 countries between 3.03 % and 3.78 %7 of 124 countries between 3.78 % and 4.53 %15 of 124 countries between 4.53 % and 5.28 %14 of 124 countries between 5.28 % and 6.02 %7 of 124 countries between 6.02 % and 6.77 %6 of 124 countries between 6.77 % and 7.52 %2 of 124 countries between 7.52 % and 8.27 %10 of 124 countries between 8.27 % and 9.02 %3 of 124 countries between 9.02 % and 9.77 %3 of 124 countries between 9.77 % and 10.52 %2 of 124 countries between 10.52 % and 11.27 %3 of 124 countries between 11.27 % and 12.02 %1 of 124 countries between 12.02 % and 12.77 %1 of 124 countries between 12.77 % and 13.51 %2 of 124 countries between 13.51 % and 14.26 %1 of 124 countries between 14.26 % and 15.01 %2 of 124 countries between 15.01 % and 15.76 %1 of 124 countries between 16.51 % and 17.26 %4 of 124 countries between 18.01 % and 18.76 %median 5.23 %Kenya: ahead of 46 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentKenya 5.45 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Kenya is ahead of 46 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Kenya
65 Slovakia5.36 %−0.09 pp
66 Pakistan5.42 %−0.03 pp
67 Kenya5.45 %—
68 Azerbaijan5.46 %+0.01 pp
69 Denmark5.53 %+0.08 pp

Unemployment, share of the labour force (World Bank / ILO estimate).

How to read this figure

Share of the labour force without work but actively seeking it (World Bank / ILO harmonised estimate). People outside the labour force — students, carers, the discouraged — are not counted.

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