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While the survey does not explicitly state the reasons for the fluctuations, a rise in new ID applicants is often associated with population growth, m...
This drop in earnings from rural power use marks the first such decline since the financial year ending June 2020, when electricity sales dropped by S...
Earnings from re-exports grew by 77.3 per cent to Sh180.2 billion in 2024, primarily due to increased re-exports of kerosene-type jet fuel.
The survey reveals that most of the funds have been channelled toward improving trunk and primary roads, upgrading secondary and minor roads, and main...
This marks a 13.5 per cent increase from the Sh107.52 billion allocated in the 2023/24 financial year.
Total funding for the education sector is expected to fall from Sh601.5 billion in 2023/24 to Sh594.2 billion in 2024/25, representing a 1.2 per cent...
In the public sector, the hospitality sector, emerged as the highest-paying, with an employee earning an average annual wage of Sh2.9 million in 2024.
The number of refugees and asylum seekers rose by 19.1 per cent to 823,932 in 2024, highlighting the country’s growing role as a regional safe haven.
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) reported a sex ratio of 106 male births for every 100 female births in 2024, marking the highest male-t...
According to the 2025 Economic Survey, private construction firms shed 2,900 jobs, reducing the number of people they employ from 226,300 in 2023 to 2...
Chest-related illnesses made up the largest share of cases reported in outpatient departments last year, contributing 30.2 per cent of the total 66.2...
Even though large investments were made in the farming sector, its growth dropped to 4.4 percent in 2024 from 7.7 percent the previous year.
The quantity of drugs seized has generally been rising since 2020, when 10,909 kilogrammes were recovered.
The report shows that 9,717 crimes were reported in the Nairobi precinct, a decline from 11,108 in 2023. Kiambu and Meru Police Command Stations ranke...
This job growth marked a strong recovery after the sector lost over 8,200 jobs in 2023. Employment had dropped by 12.46 per cent from 66,260 in 2022 d...
Older teens aged 15 to 19 registered 231,102 cases, showing a 4.3 per cent decline. These figures offer hope that ongoing efforts to address teenage p...
According to KNBS, out of the 324,828 applicants who were not successful, 292,751 were students from public universities, 12,159 were from private uni...
The Economic Survey 2025 reveals that domestic SMS traffic rose by 4.4 per cent, from 52.4 billion messages in 2023 to 54.7 billion in 2024.
This is from Sh15.03 trillion in 2023, representing an eight per cent year-on-year growth.
Kirinyaga's Jane Njeri has been ranked the most popular Woman Representative in 2024, according to the Infotrak survey, with a score of 52 per cent.
Kilifi County recorded the most significant improvement, with Kiambu, Lamu, Samburu, and Mombasa also showing notable progress.
However, the reduction in market concentration reflects investors' growing preference for diversifying their portfolios beyond the traditional blue-ch...
The report says the economy continues to be the primary driver of both optimism and pessimism.
The Institute of Economic Affairs growth will remain moderate and uneven in the coming year unless significant structural reforms are implemented.
Regionally, the survey found Nairobi and Nyanza led in distrust toward the IEBC, with 59 per cent of respondents in each region expressing scepticism.
Out of the total households surveyed, the trend shows a 7.9 per cent dip in the savings culture of Kenyans from 2021, the previous survey period, to d...
Nakhuva believes that society is gradually evolving from the outdated notion that it's taboo for women to own homes.
It surpassed the foreign direct investments and other portfolio investments from Uganda, the immediate former leader who held Sh15.4 billion in the pe...
