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Kenya

KE · KEN · Sub-Saharan Africa

A consolidated migration profile for Kenya: who arrives, who leaves, how many people are hosted or displaced, and the national context behind those numbers. Every figure below is a reported value from an official source — nothing is estimated or filled in.

CapitalNairobi
RegionSub-Saharan Africa
SubregionSub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)
Population57,532,493
Refugees hosted 617,125 People protected here
Refugees from here — Fled abroad
Migrants living here 992,536 Foreign-born stock
Net migration -27,330 Net outflow
Asylum-seekers 218,646 Awaiting a decision
Reporting year 2025 Most recent data
Latest figures · 2025

Key migration numbers

The headline counts for the most recent reporting year. Refugees hosted are people this country protects; asylum-seekers are still awaiting a decision; applications are new asylum claims lodged during the year.

2025Reporting year
617,125Refugees hosted
218,646Asylum-seekers
32,718Applications (year)
Migration balance

Incoming vs outgoing

Annual estimates

Net migration is arrivals minus departures over the year. Positive means more people moved in than out. Migrant stock is the total foreign-born people living here now.

Net migration (year)-27,330Net outflow
Migrants living here992,536Migrant stock
Missing / dead migrants
No data available
IOM Missing Migrants Project
Historical series

Statistics

Recorded migrant, refugee and asylum populations over time. Each line is one category; gaps mean a year the source did not report a figure (the line bridges the gap rather than dropping to zero).

Population profile

Sex, age, religion & more

How the population breaks down across reported dimensions, grouped by the year each figure was reported (most recent first). Bars show each group’s share of the total; where only headcounts were published, the raw number is shown instead.

Religion

Religious make-up over time

National shares

Share of the population by faith across the recorded years. Each line is a stored national value; nothing is estimated.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2020
Christian Muslim Jewish Unaffiliated Other

See the full religion timeline for this country →

Places of worship

Places of worship over time

Recorded counts

No places-of-worship counts are recorded for this country yet. See the Places of worship page for the full picture.

See the full places-of-worship timeline for this country → · browse individual places →

Displaced population by age cohort for the most recent reported year. Age is summed across sexes in the source data, so this is a single series per cohort — not a male/female split.

Displaced population by sex over the reported years, stacked so the top line reads as the total.

Sex

Female 32.7%
Male 34.3%
Unknown 33.0%

Age

0-4 8.2%
12-17 11.0%
18-59 30.8%
5-11 15.0%
60+ 2.0%
Country context

National indicators

Economy

GDP (current US$)135,941,278,878.82 USD2025
GDP per capita (current US$)2,362.86 USD2025
Unemployment (% of labour force)5.45 %2025
Personal remittances received (US$)4,999,830,478.64 USD2024
Personal remittances received (% of GDP)4.15 %2024

Population

Population, total57,532,493.00 people2025
Population density95.27 people/km22023

Migration

Net migration-27,330.00 people2025
International migrant stock, total992,536.00 people2024
International migrant stock (% of population)1.80 %2024

Asylum decisions

Asylum decisions - recognised15,622.00 people2025
Asylum decisions - rejected10.00 people2023
Asylum decisions - otherwise closed18,100.00 people2025
Asylum decisions - total33,722.00 people2025

Durable solutions

Returned refugees17,486.00 people2025
Returned IDPs5,000.00 people2009

Other

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)63.83 years2024
Current health expenditure (% of GDP)4.35 %2023
Gini index38.50 2022
Poverty headcount ratio at $2.15 a day (% of population)45.50 %2022
Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)102.20 %2016
Context

Migration & quality of life

These charts place migration next to quality-of-life indicators over time. Correlation is not causation — a relationship here does not prove migration caused the change, or that a change caused the migration.

Economy

Gross domestic product

World Bank

GDP (current US$)

$135.94B

Reported 2025

GDP per capita (current US$)

$2,363

Reported 2025

Migrant stock as a share of the population (left axis, in percent) shown against life expectancy (right axis, in years) over the years.

Each point is one year: migrant share of population (x, in percent) versus life expectancy (y, in years).

Public safety

Recorded crime

Not migrant offending

National crime figures for context only — they describe the whole resident population and are not a measure of migrant offending.

Recorded crime by type
rate / 100k where available
CrimeRate / 100k
66.00
Public expenditure

Expenses

Migration-related public spending only — Official Development Assistance received and provided (which, for donor countries, includes in-donor refugee costs), in US dollars, stacked so the top line reads as the combined total for each year.

YearAmount (USD)Category
2023$2,595,822,998ODA received
2022$2,639,365,234ODA received
2021$3,178,648,438ODA received
2020$3,990,595,703ODA received
2019$3,173,125,732ODA received
2018$2,491,010,254ODA received
2017$2,480,221,924ODA received
2016$2,188,385,498ODA received
2015$2,463,558,594ODA received
2014$2,661,029,541ODA received
2013$3,306,840,820ODA received
2012$2,653,659,180ODA received
2011$2,478,818,359ODA received
2010$1,489,670,044ODA received
2009$1,782,476,929ODA received
2008$1,363,400,635ODA received
2007$1,329,359,863ODA received
2006$941,650,330ODA received
2005$756,570,679ODA received
2004$655,934,265ODA received
2003$522,895,081ODA received
2002$388,216,400ODA received
2001$472,409,882ODA received
2000$513,924,866ODA received
1999$311,250,519ODA received
1998$415,262,329ODA received
1997$448,652,344ODA received
1996$596,260,010ODA received
1995$733,090,027ODA received
1994$677,869,995ODA received
1993$915,630,005ODA received
1992$884,924,988ODA received
1991$916,460,022ODA received
1990$1,181,290,039ODA received
1989$1,059,699,951ODA received
1988$832,030,029ODA received
1987$557,219,971ODA received
1986$442,959,991ODA received
1985$426,660,004ODA received
1984$408,429,993ODA received
1983$396,100,006ODA received
1982$484,600,006ODA received
1981$448,149,994ODA received
1980$394,790,009ODA received
1979$348,339,996ODA received
1978$245,610,001ODA received
1977$160,759,995ODA received
1976$154,600,006ODA received
1975$124,820,000ODA received
1974$116,580,002ODA received
1973$94,970,001ODA received
1972$71,860,001ODA received
1971$66,849,998ODA received
1970$57,349,998ODA received
1969$55,810,001ODA received
1968$60,709,999ODA received
1967$36,709,999ODA received
1966$55,410,000ODA received
1965$72,129,997ODA received
1964$56,709,999ODA received
1963$55,590,000ODA received
1962$49,119,999ODA received
1961$63,230,000ODA received
1960$21,110,001ODA received
Sources & notes

Figures are consolidated from the UNHCR Refugee Data Finder and the World Bank / UNODC. Only reported values are shown — blanks mean a source did not publish a figure, never a fabricated estimate. Statistics describe recorded populations and movements and should not be read as causal relationships.