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Kenya: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1999–2022 · 8 observations · unemp

2022
5.45%percent
Change on 2021
−0.1 pointsfrom 5.59%
Record high and low
10.0% (1999)low 2.76% (2016)

Unemployment rate

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2%3%4%5%6%7%8%9%10%11%20002005201020152020KenyaKenya, 1999: 10.0%Kenya
Percent

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20225.45
20215.59
20195.01
20162.76
20099.60
20069.96
20059.96
199910.0

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1999–2022
  • International Labour Organization2005–2021
  • African Development Bank2009

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Kenya documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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