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Cooperative Societies and Unions by Type.

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How many cooperative societies Kenya has registered, by what they do, for the ten years to 2024. 200 observations: fifteen types of society, the two group totals they roll into, the societies total, the unions above them, and a grand total.

Kenya registered 30,832 cooperatives in 2024 against 17,498 in 2015, a rise of 76.2 per cent. The unions above them went from 99 to 106, a rise of 7.1 per cent. A cooperative union is an apex body that member societies form to market, process or finance together, so the two numbers describe the same movement from opposite ends: the base grew by three quarters in a decade and the tier meant to organise it grew by seven societies.

Savings and credit cooperatives are close to half of everything here, 14,484 of 30,832 in 2024, though their share has slipped from 50.9 per cent in 2015 to 47.0. Transport cooperatives grew nearly tenfold over the decade, from 67 to 663, and fisheries tripled, from 94 to 286.

Agriculture's share of the register barely moved, from 31.3 per cent to 30.0, while the register itself grew by three quarters. Agricultural cooperatives grew 68.9 per cent and non-agricultural ones 80.1.

These are counts of registered societies, not of active ones, and not of their members. Registration is a legal status that persists until it is cancelled, so the series measures the stock of registered cooperatives rather than how many are trading.

Three years are marked revised by the source and 2024 is provisional; both travel in a status column. One row, other non-agricultural, carries its revision marker on its label rather than on a year, so every year of that row is marked revised: the source does not say which years moved.

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Kenya's cooperative societies grew by three quarters in a decade. The unions above them grew by seven.

Registered cooperative societies and unions, indexed to 2015 = 100 · 2015 to 2024

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Cooperative Societies and Unions by Type (annual) · Updated 2026-08-23
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imibare contributors. (2026). Cooperative Societies and Unions by Type [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-23. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.cooperative-societies.annual