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Import Values by SITC Section and Principal Country of Origin.

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Kenya's imports as a matrix of what against where, for the ten years to 2024. Nine SITC sections crossed with ten named trading partners and a rest-of-world residual, 1,200 observations.

The clearest thing in this table is who is not in it. The ten named partners are Kenya's historic suppliers, and together they accounted for 41.0 per cent of imports in 2015 and 28.3 per cent in 2024. The residual grew from KSh 935 billion to KSh 1.94 trillion over the same years. China is not among the named ten, and by the by-country table it alone is 21.3 per cent of the 2024 bill.

India is the largest named partner in both years, at KSh 253 billion and KSh 263 billion, and its share of the total therefore fell by more than a third. The United States is second in both years. The United Kingdom, the one partner named here that was once Kenya's dominant supplier, is sixth in 2024 at KSh 45 billion.

Machinery and transport equipment is the largest section throughout. Mineral fuels is where the named partners matter least: the residual carries almost all of it, which is consistent with the by-country table showing the rest of the Middle East as the fastest-growing source.

Figures are in thousands of Kenya shillings. The table prints its own total row among its sections, and it matches Tables 6.3, 6.16 and 6.20 exactly in every year.

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Kenya's ten historic suppliers were 41 per cent of its import bill in 2015 and 28 per cent in 2024; everyone else took the difference.

Import values by principal country of origin, share of total · per cent · 2015 to 2024

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Import Values by SITC Section and Principal Country of Origin (annual) · Updated 2026-08-26

#	section	partner	is_total	is_section_total	year	period_start	value	unit	status
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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
section	string	One of the nine SITC sections, or `Total Imports`, which the source prints in the same column as the sections it sums	-
partner	string	One of ten named countries, `Rest of the world`, or `Total` for the row's own printed total	-
is_total	bool	True for every row of the `Total Imports` section. Summing value without filtering on this returns exactly twice the import bill	-
is_section_total	bool	True for the row's printed `Total` column, which is the sum of its eleven partner columns	-
year	int64	Calendar year the goods were imported 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). Import Values by SITC Section and Principal Country of Origin [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-26. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.imports-by-sitc.annual