cbk ke.cbk.remittances-by-source.monthly monthly

Remittances by Source Country.

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COVERAGE 2019-02 - present

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SOURCE www.centralbank.go.ke

Monthly remittance inflows to Kenya by the country the money was sent from: 39 countries across six regions, plus three economic blocs, over 87 months from February 2019. 4,263 observations, in thousands of US dollars.

One country sends more than half of it. In the twelve months to April 2026 Kenyans in the United States sent USD 2.66 billion of the USD 5.05 billion total, 53 percent, and nearly seven times what the next largest source, the United Kingdom, sent. The total itself has grown 63 percent since 2020.

This is the split that ke.cbk.diaspora-remittances.monthly cannot show. That table publishes North America, Europe and Rest of World, and the American figure is 93 percent one country.

Rows come at four levels and summing without filtering source_level counts the same dollar three times. country rows are what add up to a region. region rows are the source's own six regional totals. total is the grand total. bloc rows are European Union, EAC and COMESA, which re-cut the same money by trade bloc and are additive with nothing: the European Union figure overlaps the Europe region rather than sitting beside it.

Two arithmetic checks hold to the cent in every one of the 87 months and are asserted on every run: the countries in a region add up to that region's published total, and the six regions add up to the grand total.

CBK revises its back series. Between the February 2025 and May 2026 uploads, 736 of 3,240 shared cells changed and every shared month carried at least one revision, some of them large. Each upload carries the whole history, so the newest is taken whole rather than spliced with older ones, and R2 keeps the superseded versions.

Five of the six regions publish a remainder row called "Other" for the countries too small to list, so the source name alone does not identify a row and the region is part of the key. That is asserted on every run.

Two country names are misspelled in the source and are corrected here: Saudia Arabia and New zealand. The source spellings are recorded in pipeline/lib/cbk_remittances.py.

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REMITTANCES BY SOURCE

One country sends more than half the money Kenyans abroad send home: the United States accounts for 53 percent, nearly seven times the next largest source.

Largest source countries · share of remittances · 12 months to April 2026

SOURCE: Central Bank of Kenya · Remittances by Source Country (monthly) · Updated 2026-09-02

#	date	region	source	source_level	value	unit
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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
date	date	First day of reference month	-
region	string	The region a country sits in, and part of the key. Absent on region totals, the grand total and the blocs	-
source	string	Source country, region, GRAND TOTAL or economic bloc, as named in the source. Not unique on its own: five regions each publish a remainder row called "Other", so a row is identified by date, region, source and source_level together	-
source_level	string	country (sums to its region), region (sums to the grand total), total, or bloc (overlaps the countries and is additive with nothing)	-
value	float64	Remittance inflow, in the unit named alongside	USD thousand
unit	string	usd_thousand	-

CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). Remittances by Source Country [Data set]. imibare. v2026-09-02. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.cbk.remittances-by-source.monthly