Total employment in formal and informal sectors in Kenya 2015-2023

In 2023, around 20 million people were employed in Kenya, this was an increase of some 900,000 individuals from the previous year. The employees belonged mostly to the informal sector. Roughly 16.7 million worked in informal conditions, whereas close to 3.3 million were employed in the formal sector. The informal sector constitutes an important part of the Kenyan economy, being related to employment creation, production, and income generation. Trends in the informal labor market and economic sectorsThe largest employment activities for people in the informal sector were in wholesale and retail trade, as well as hotels and restaurants, with 9.32 million people employed in these areas in 2022. Moreover, the hospitality sector in the country was the fastest-growing economic sector with a quarterly growth rate of 21.5 percent of the GDP. However, the largest economic sector as an added value to the GDP was the agricultural sector. Navigating unemployment challenges in KenyaKenya’s unemployment rate is following a decreasing trend, which dropped below five percent at the end of 2022. However, unemployment among the youth in the same period was fairly high at 13.4 percent. The cohort with the highest level of unemployment was among the age group between 20 to 24 years old, with an unemployment rate of over 15 percent.

至2023年，肯尼亚约有2000万人就业，相较于上一年，增加了约90万人。这些就业者主要分布在非正式部门。其中，大约1670万人处于非正式工作条件下，而近330万人则在正式部门就业。非正式部门构成了肯尼亚经济的重要部分，与就业创造、生产及收入生成密切相关。非正式劳动市场及经济部门的发展趋势中，批发和零售贸易、以及酒店和餐饮业是民间部门最大的就业活动领域，2022年共有932万人从事这些行业。此外，国内酒店业是增长最快的经济部门，其国内生产总值（GDP）的季度增长率达到了21.5%。然而，就为国内生产总值（GDP）增加附加值而言，农业部门是最大的经济部门。在肯尼亚应对失业挑战的过程中，肯尼亚的失业率呈现下降趋势，至2022年底已降至五以下。然而，同期青年失业率相对较高，为13.4%，其中20至24岁年龄段的失业率超过15%。