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Domestic Exports by Broad Economic Category.

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Kenya's domestic exports classified by what the goods are used for rather than what they are, for the ten years to 2024. 300 observations across 30 nodes: seven top-level categories, their components, and the sub-components below those, plus the grand total.

Kenya's export earnings grew 85.3 per cent over the decade, from KSh 503.0 billion to KSh 932.2 billion, and what they are made of barely moved. Food and beverages went from 44.6 per cent of the total to 44.0, industrial supplies from 25.9 to 25.5, and consumer goods not elsewhere specified from 24.8 to 26.2. Those three are 95.7 per cent of exports in 2024 and were 95.3 in 2015.

The mix moves one level down. Within food and beverages, processed goods grew 133.4 per cent against 71.4 for primary goods, so the processed share of that category rose from 18.3 per cent to 23.3. Across every category that prints the split, primary goods fell from 62.1 per cent of the primary-plus-processed pair to 58.6.

Transport equipment is the one category that has not grown with the rest: 6.4 per cent over the decade against 85.3 for exports as a whole, so its share fell from 1.4 per cent to 0.8.

The Broad Economic Categories are a United Nations classification that cuts trade by end use, which is why food appears as both an industrial input and a household good, and why a single commodity can sit in more than one category. It answers a different question from the commodity tables in the same chapter and does not reconcile against them line by line.

One figure is printed wrong and is published as printed. In the 2024 provisional column, the Other row under transport equipment reads KSh 7,433,727 thousand while its own two sub-components sum to KSh 2,790,053 thousand, a gap of 61 per cent of that year's transport total. Substituting the sub-components for the printed Other reproduces the category total exactly, so the table's own arithmetic says the printed Other is the outlier and not the total. Repairing the cell would publish a figure KNBS did not print.

Figures are in thousands of Kenya shillings. The total includes small-scale cross-border trade and electricity, which the source states in a footnote and which applies to its domestic export figures throughout the chapter: this table's total matches the one in Table 6.3 exactly in every year.

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WHAT THE EXPORTS ARE FOR

Kenya's exports grew 85 per cent in a decade and what they are made of barely moved: three categories are still 95 per cent of the total.

Domestic exports by Broad Economic Category · KSh · 2015 to 2024

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Domestic Exports by Broad Economic Category (annual) · Updated 2026-08-25

#	category	level	parent	path	parent_path	year	period_start	value	unit	status
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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
category	string	The node's own name. Six of them repeat under different parents, so this is not a key on its own	-
level	string	total, category, component or sub_component. Summing value without filtering on this triple-counts	-
parent	string	The name of the node above, or empty for the grand total	-
path	string	The node's full ancestry joined by " > ". This is the key: `Primary` and `Processed` each name three different nodes and `Other` names two	-
parent_path	string	The parent's path, or empty for the grand total	-
year	int64	Calendar year the exports were shipped in	-
period_start	date	First day of that calendar year	-
value	float64	The figure as printed, in thousands of Kenya shillings	-
unit	string	Always ksh_thousand	-
status	string	final, or provisional for a year the source marks with an asterisk	-

CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). Domestic Exports by Broad Economic Category [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-25. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.exports-by-economic-category.annual