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Import Values of Principal Commodities from COMESA, 2024.

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What Kenya buys from its COMESA neighbours and which of them supply it, for 2024. Twenty-three commodities against ten member markets, 286 observations.

Kenya bought KSh 134.9 billion from COMESA in 2024 and sold it KSh 265.8 billion, so the bloc is one of the few parts of the world Kenya runs a surplus with, and this table is the buying half of that.

Animal feeding stuffs is the largest named commodity at KSh 5.7 billion, supplied mainly by Zambia and Uganda. Maize is KSh 2.4 billion, and Zambia supplies about four fifths of it. But the great majority of the bill, KSh 106.4 billion, sits in `All other commodities`, so the named list accounts for about a fifth of what Kenya buys from the region.

One figure does not reconcile and is published as printed. The `All other commodities` row's ten country columns sum to KSh 17,335.5 thousand more than the row's own printed total, and the error reaches the table's own grand total. Table 6.16 settles which side is wrong: its COMESA subtotal for 2024 matches this table's printed total exactly and its summed columns by that same amount, so the totals are right and a country column is not. Repairing it would mean choosing which of ten columns to reduce, which the source gives no basis for.

Figures are in thousands of Kenya shillings and are provisional.

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Kenya sold COMESA KSh 266 billion in 2024 and bought back KSh 135 billion, one of the few regions it runs a surplus with.

Import values of principal commodities from COMESA · KSh · 2024

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Import Values of Principal Commodities from COMESA, 2024 (annual) · Updated 2026-08-26
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imibare contributors. (2026). Import Values of Principal Commodities from COMESA, 2024 [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-26. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.comesa-imports-2024.annual