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Kenya: Unemployment, total (% of labor force)

5.45percent · 2025+97.3% since 2015

Share of the labor force without work. Annual figures for Kenya from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20255.449
20245.487
20235.409
20225.565
20215.693
20205.613
20195.014
20184.284
20173.542
20162.757
20152.762
20142.767
20132.762
20122.678
20112.699
20102.793
20092.816
20082.751
20072.642
20062.673
20052.739
20042.844
20032.869
20022.916
20012.876
20002.884
19992.884
19982.843
19972.818
19962.773
19952.848
19942.955
19932.979
19922.894
19912.78

Source

Published by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Unemployment, total (% of labor force). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-unemployment (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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