t.)

Unemployment rate:
40% (2001 est.)

Population below poverty line:
50% (2000 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2%
highest 10%: 37.2% (2000)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
44.5 (1997)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
10.5% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
19.2% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $4.448 billion
expenditures: $5.377 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)

Public debt:
50.5% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
tea, coffee, corn, wheat, sugarcane, fruit, vegetables; dairy
products, beef, pork, poultry, eggs

Industries:
small-scale consumer goods (plastic, furniture, batteries,
textiles, clothing, soap, cigarettes, flour), agricultural products,
horticulture, oil refining; aluminum, steel, lead; cement,
commercial ship repair, tourism

Industrial production growth rate:
6.3% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
5.709 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 17.7%
hydro: 71%
nuclear: 0%
other: 11.3% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
5.459 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
150 million kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
55,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Current account balance:
$-1.119 billion (2006 est.)

Exports:
$3.614 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
tea, horticultural products, coffee, petroleum products, fish,
cement

Exports - partners:
Uganda 14.2%, UK 10.8%, US 9.7%, Netherlands 8.3%, Egypt 5.2%,
Pakistan 4.8%, Tanzania 4.8% (2005)

Imports:
$6.602 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and transportation equipment, petroleum products, motor
vehicles, iron and steel, resins and plastics

Imports - partners:
UAE 20.9%, US 9.2%, India 7.7%, South Africa 6.7%, China 6.6%,
Saudi Arabia 6.5%, UK 5.1% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$2.35 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$6.675 billion (2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$453 million (1997)

Currency (code):
Kenyan shilling (KES)

Currency code:
KES

Exchange rates