knbs ke.knbs.import-quantities.annual annual

Quantities of Principal Commodities of Import.

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The volume side of Kenya's imports, against the value side published as ke.knbs.trade-by-commodity.annual. 890 observations covering 95 commodities in nine units, for the nine years to 2024.

Food volumes have risen with the population. Unmilled wheat went from 1.36 million tonnes in 2016 to 2.31 million in 2024, a rise of 69.9 per cent, and rice from 508,000 tonnes to 898,000, a rise of 76.7. Both are staples Kenya does not grow enough of, and both grew faster than the import bill as a whole.

Motor spirit moved much less: 1,529 million litres in 2016 against 1,838 million in 2024, a rise of 20.2 per cent. Set beside the fuels import bill more than doubling over roughly the same years, that is a price story rather than a volume one.

This table prints no totals of any kind, which makes it the one dataset in chapter 6's import group with no arithmetic of its own. It is published because a quantity series is what separates a price change from a volume change, and the value tables in the same chapter cannot do that alone.

The units are those the source states: tonnes, thousands of tonnes, thousands and millions of litres, numbers and thousands of numbers, thousands of square metres, thousands of pairs and thousands of metres. A commodity keeps one unit across all its years, which the library asserts.

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A PRICE STORY, NOT A VOLUME ONE

Kenya landed a fifth more motor spirit in 2024 than in 2016 while its fuel bill more than doubled.

Quantities of principal imports, indexed to 2016 = 100 · 2016 to 2024

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Quantities of Principal Commodities of Import (annual) · Updated 2026-08-26
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imibare contributors. (2026). Quantities of Principal Commodities of Import [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-26. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.import-quantities.annual