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Principal Export Commodities as a Share of Export Value.

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What share of Kenya's domestic export earnings each principal commodity accounts for, for the ten years to 2024. 180 observations: seventeen commodity groups, a residual for everything not itemised, and the printed total of 100.

Tea has lost 4.3 points of Kenya's export earnings in a decade, falling from 24.6 per cent in 2015 to 20.3 in 2024, and horticulture has passed it. Horticulture rose from 20.2 to 21.8 over the same years. The two trade places repeatedly rather than crossing once: horticulture led in 2019, 2021 and 2024 and tea led in the other seven years, and the gap between them has never exceeded 6.4 points.

Together they are about two fifths of everything Kenya sells abroad, 42.1 per cent in 2024, down from 49.2 in 2017. No other named commodity reaches 5 per cent: coffee is 4.1 and every remaining group is under 2.3.

The largest single row is the residual. Commodities the table does not itemise are 44.8 per cent of export earnings in 2024, up from 41.4 in 2015, so the share of Kenya's exports that this table names has been shrinking.

Three commodity groups have grown their share fastest from a small base: meat and meat preparations went from 0.6 per cent to 2.2, scrap metal from 0.7 to 1.6, and pyrethrum from 0.0 to 0.1. Two have gone the other way to nothing: beans, peas and lentils were 1.8 per cent in 2015 and round to 0.0 in 2024, and building cement fell from 1.5 to 0.5.

Nineteen of the 180 figures are printed zeros rather than blanks, mostly pyrethrum, wool and cashew nuts in years when their share rounded below 0.05 per cent. They are published as the zeros the source prints, not as missing values.

The seventeen shares sum to within 0.2 points of the printed 100 in every year and never exactly, which is what seventeen figures each rounded to one decimal do.

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Tea has lost 4.3 points of Kenya's export earnings in a decade, and horticulture has passed it.

Principal commodities as a share of domestic export value · per cent · 2015 to 2024

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Principal Export Commodities as a Share of Export Value (annual) · Updated 2026-08-25

#	year	period_start	commodity	is_total	value	unit	status
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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
year	int64	Calendar year the shares are of	-
period_start	date	First day of that calendar year	-
commodity	string	The commodity group, or Other for everything the table does not itemise, or Total for the printed 100	-
is_total	bool	True for the printed total row only. Summing value without filtering on this counts every year twice	-
value	float64	Share of the value of all domestic exports, per cent	-
unit	string	Always percent	-
status	string	final, or provisional for a year the source marks with an asterisk	-

CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). Principal Export Commodities as a Share of Export Value [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-25. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.export-commodity-shares.annual