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International Investment Position.

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What Kenya owns abroad against what the world owns in Kenya, for the ten years to 2024. 1,060 observations across five levels: the net position, its two sides, their components, sub-components and the institutional sectors beneath those.

Kenya's net international investment position went from minus KSh 2.14 trillion in 2015 to minus KSh 7.92 trillion in 2024, and to minus KSh 9.18 trillion in 2023 before recovering. The country owes the world substantially more than it owns abroad, and the gap has widened almost fourfold.

Both sides grew, and the liability side grew faster. Assets rose 149 per cent, from KSh 1.66 trillion to KSh 4.12 trillion. Liabilities rose 217 per cent, from KSh 3.80 trillion to KSh 12.05 trillion. So the position did not deteriorate because Kenya invested less abroad; it deteriorated because more was invested in Kenya, which is a different fact and a different policy question.

Portfolio investment is the fastest-growing asset class, from KSh 90.2 billion to KSh 1.03 trillion, more than eleven times over. Direct investment assets grew from KSh 93.5 billion to KSh 428.9 billion.

**Figures are in thousands of millions of Kenya shillings**, which is to say millions, and every other table in this chapter is in thousands. They are published under the unit `ksh_million` for that reason: under a single unit name the two would be silently comparable and this table would read a thousand times too small.

The position is a stock at a point in time, not a flow over a year, so it does not sum with the trade tables in the same chapter.

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OWES MORE THAN IT OWNS

What the world owns in Kenya grew 217 per cent in a decade against 149 for what Kenya owns abroad, nearly quadrupling the gap between them.

International investment position, assets against liabilities · KSh million · 2015 to 2024

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · International Investment Position (annual) · Updated 2026-08-26

#	level	side	component	sub_component	sector	year	period_start	value	unit	status
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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
level	string	net, side, component, sub_component or sector. Summing value without filtering on this counts the same money five times	-
side	string	Assets or Liabilities; empty for the net position row	-
component	string	The component the row sits under, such as Portfolio Investment; empty for the net, side and component rows themselves	-
sub_component	string	The sub-component a sector row sits under, such as Debt securities; empty where a component splits straight into sectors	-
sector	string	The institutional sector, one of four; empty above that level. These four labels repeat under almost every component, so this is not a key on its own	-
year	int64	Calendar year the position is measured at the end of	-
period_start	date	First day of that calendar year	-
value	float64	The figure as printed, in millions of Kenya shillings	-
unit	string	Always ksh_million, unlike the rest of this chapter	-
status	string	final, or provisional for a year the source marks with an asterisk	-

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imibare contributors. (2026). International Investment Position [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-26. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.investment-position.annual