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Kenya unemployment rate

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Last release
Observation period
Q4 2023
Next release
Forecast
Highest
12.20% on Dec 31, 2009
Lowest
4.70% on Jun 30, 2019

About Kenya unemployment rate


Category
Labor
Frequency
Quarterly
Units
%
In Kenya, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.

Frequently Asked Questions


To calculate Kenya unemployment rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever Kenya unemployment rate is 4.70%.
The highest figure Kenya unemployment rate has ever reached is 12.20%.
Last quarter Kenya unemployment rate was 5.70%, and the quarter before that it amounted to 4.90%.