--consumption: 3.985 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 175 million kWh (1996)

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

Exports: $2 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Exports--commodities: tea 18%, coffee 15%, petroleum products
(1995)

Exports--partners: Uganda 16.1%, Tanzania 12.8%, UK 10.4%, Germany
7.5% (1996)

Imports: $3.05 billion (f.o.b., 1998)

Imports--commodities: machinery and transportation equipment 31%,
consumer goods 13%, petroleum products 12% (1995)

Imports--partners: UK 13.2%, UAE 8.2%, South Africa 7.6%, Germany
7.4% (1996)

Debt--external: $6.45 billion (1997 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $642.8 million (1995)

Currency: 1 Kenyan shilling (KSh) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Kenyan shillings (KSh) per US$1--61.802 (January
1999), 60.367 (1998), 58.732 (1997), 57.115 (1996), 51.430 (1995),
56.051 (1994)

Fiscal year: 1 July--30 June

Communications

Telephones: 383,676 (1997); 3,077 cellular telephone subscribers
(1998)

Telephone system:
domestic: primarily microwave radio relay
international: satellite earth stations--4 Intelsat

Radio broadcast stations: AM 24, FM 7, shortwave 2

Radios: 5 million

Television broadcast stations: 8 (of which six are
government-controlled and two are commercial) (1997)

Televisions: 500,000

Transportation

Railways:
total: 2,652 km
narrow gauge: 2,652 km 1.000-m gauge

Highways:
total: 63,800 km
paved: 8,868 km
unpaved: 54,932 km (1996 est.)

Waterways: part of the Lake Victoria system is within the
boundaries of Kenya

Pipelines: petroleum products 483 km

Ports and harbors: Kisumu, Lamu, Mombasa

Merchant marine:
total: 2 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,883 GRT/6,255 DWT
ships by type: oil tanker 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 1 (1998 est.)

Airports: 232 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 21
over 3,047 m: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 14 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 211
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 14
914 to 1,523 m: 113
under 914 m: 83 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, paramilitary General
Service Unit of the Police

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 7,094,151 (1999 est.)

Military