Kenya
Kenya in numbers
38 measures of Kenya from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending1.07% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$1.36B in 2025
- Military spending per person$26 in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.6% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel24,000 people in 2020
- National power0.23% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.11% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports117 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports2 million TIV in 1993
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Kenya with…
- Kenya vs India
- Kenya vs China
- Kenya vs United States
- Kenya vs Indonesia
- Kenya vs Pakistan
- Kenya vs Nigeria
- Kenya vs Brazil
- Kenya vs Bangladesh
- Kenya vs Russia
- Kenya vs Ethiopia
- Kenya vs Mexico
- Kenya vs Japan
- Kenya vs Egypt
- Kenya vs Philippines
- Kenya vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Kenya vs Vietnam
- Kenya vs Iran
- Kenya vs Türkiye
- Kenya vs Germany
- Kenya vs Thailand
- Kenya vs Tanzania
- Kenya vs United Kingdom
- Kenya vs France
- Kenya vs South Africa
- Kenya vs Italy
- Kenya vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Kenya vs Colombia
- Kenya vs South Korea
- Kenya vs Sudan
- Kenya vs Uganda
- Kenya vs Spain
- Kenya vs Argentina
- Kenya vs Canada
- Kenya vs Angola
- Kenya vs Saudi Arabia
- Kenya vs Poland
- Kenya vs Mozambique
- Kenya vs Ghana
- Kenya vs Madagascar
- Kenya vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Kenya vs Cameroon
- Kenya vs Niger
- Kenya vs Australia
- Kenya vs Mali
- Kenya vs Burkina Faso
- Kenya vs Malawi
- Kenya vs Zambia
- Kenya vs Chad
- Kenya vs Somalia
- Kenya vs Senegal
- Kenya vs Netherlands
- Kenya vs Zimbabwe
- Kenya vs Guinea
- Kenya vs Benin
- Kenya vs Rwanda
- Kenya vs Burundi
- Kenya vs South Sudan
- Kenya vs Belgium
- Kenya vs United Arab Emirates
- Kenya vs Sweden
- Kenya vs Israel
- Kenya vs Austria
- Kenya vs Switzerland
- Kenya vs Singapore
- Kenya vs Ireland
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time