Foreign Investment Survey Stories
Uganda’s leading yield of 13 per cent indicates a robust appetite for its industrial assets, while Kenya’s comparatively lower rate points to concerns...
This trend suggests that multinationals are relying more on Kenyan professionals while cautiously expanding their local workforce after the disruption...
The survey, covering March to May 2025, found that 11 per cent of farmers who borrowed from the Hustler Fund and 13 per cent who relied on microfinanc...
The July 2025 CBK agriculture survey showed that while inflation rose slightly to 4.1 per cent in July compared to the same period last year, most far...
At the county level, Nairobi City leads in mobile phone ownership at 67.7 per cent, followed by Kirinyaga at 65.0 per cent, Nyandarua at 63.9 per cent...
NEMA relies almost entirely on quantity estimates submitted by companies themselves, with only one in-house officer tasked with checking thousands of...
Chiefs (16.2 per cent), County Inspectorate Officers (14.6 per cent), and lawyers (14.1 per cent) rounded off the top five professional groups reporte...
Institutions where bribery was most prevalent were found to be Assistant County Commissioners' offices and County Administration, Education, Public Wo...
The 2022 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey shows that 15 per cent of girls aged 15–19 have been pregnant. The rate increases sharply with age, risin...
Foreign exchange reserves were reported at $10,749 million (Sh1.39 trillion), equivalent to 4.7 months of import cover.
The survey will gather information on income, health, education, employment, and living conditions to help shape government policy and track improveme...
The government has announced that the funds held at the National Treasury since 2016 will be released starting next month after the approval of long-p...
The CBK survey shows that 54 per cent of farmers said high interest rates were the main reason they couldn’t access credit, up from 38 per cent in Mar...
Data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics shows that 782,300 new jobs were created in 2024, a drop from 848,100 the year before.
The Agriculture Sector Survey released on Tuesday, June 17, notes that while cereal products will see price hikes, some fast-maturing vegetables are p...
The aerial geophysical survey, conducted between 2019 and 2022, was designed to establish which minerals are available in Kenya, their commercial valu...
The poll, released on Wednesday, paints a grim picture of the national mood, showing that across all nine of Kenya’s regions, overwhelming majorities...
The CBK survey revealed that banks plan to ramp up loan recovery efforts in eight of the 11 economic sectors and maintain the current pace in the rema...
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...
