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Balance of Payments.

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Kenya's account with the rest of the world, in the concepts of the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: the current, capital and financial accounts, net errors and omissions, the overall balance, and reserves. 510 observations, 51 line items across ten years.

Kenya bought KSh 1.31 trillion more goods than it sold in 2024, and still ran a current account deficit of only KSh 209 billion. What closes the gap is secondary income, which is mostly remittances from Kenyans abroad: KSh 1.03 trillion in 2024, covering four fifths of the goods deficit on its own, and three times what it was in 2015. The current account deficit has narrowed by 63 percent in two years.

Debits are published as positive magnitudes, so a parent row is a signed combination of the rows beneath it rather than their sum. Three BPM6 identities tie nine of the rows together and all three are asserted on every run: exports less imports plus services credit less services debit is the balance on goods and services; that plus net primary income is the balance on goods, services and primary income; that plus net secondary income is the current account.

Ten of the row labels are used twice. Central bank, General government, Other equity, Debt securities, Other sectors, Other financial corporations and Nonfinancial corporations, households and NPISHs each appear once under Other investment: assets and once under Other investment: liabilities, carrying different figures, and their immediate parent is the same in both cases. concept_path therefore carries the full chain of ancestors, and is the only column on which a row is unique.

Years carry vintage markers in the source: 2024 is provisional and 2020, 2021 and 2022 are revised. These are recorded per row in status rather than stripped, because a provisional figure is still the figure KNBS published for that year.

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BALANCE OF PAYMENTS

Money sent home from abroad covers four fifths of Kenya's goods trade deficit, leaving a current account gap of KSh 209 billion against one of KSh 1.3 trillion in goods.

Current account components · KSh trillion · 2015 to 2024

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Balance of Payments (annual) · Updated 2026-08-17

#	year	account	concept	concept_path	concept_level	status	value	unit
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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
year	int64	Reference year	-
account	string	The standard account the row sits in, A. Current Account through F. Reserves and Related Items	-
concept	string	BPM6 concept as named in the source. Not unique on its own: ten labels are used twice, under assets and under liabilities	-
concept_path	string	The row's ancestors from its account down, joined by " > ". Unique within a year, and the column to join on	-
concept_level	string	account, component, sub_component or detail, by depth in the source's own indentation. Levels are not additive with each other	-
status	string	final, revised or provisional, as the source marks the year	-
value	float64	The figure, in the unit named alongside. Signed: a deficit is negative, and debits are published as positive magnitudes	-
unit	string	ksh_million	-

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imibare contributors. (2026). Balance of Payments [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-17. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.balance-of-payments.annual