Kenya | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2009 - 2023

Exports structure from Kenya in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 22% (1.62 billion US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
• 10.1% (726 million US$): 06 - Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
• 5.13% (367 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 3.41% (244 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 3.12% (223 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 3.07% (220 million US$): 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
• 2.9% (208 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 2.83% (202 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 2.57% (184 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.56% (183 million US$): 62 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted

What did Kenya export in 2023?

Kenya's Top Exports in 2023:

• 18.8% ($1.34 billion): 0902 - Tea, whether or not flavoured
• 9.26% ($663 million): 0603 - Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared
• 4.99% ($357 million): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
• 3.62% ($259 million): 0901 - Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion.
• 2.6% ($186 million): 0804 - Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried
• 2.18% ($156 million): 3004 - Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale
• 2.15% ($154 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 2.02% ($145 million): 2614 - Titanium ores and concentrates
• 1.71% ($122 million): 0204 - Meat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen.
• 1.65% ($118 million): 7210 - Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, clad, plated or coated

Imports structure to Kenya in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 26% (4.83 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 6.92% (1.28 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 6.84% (1.27 billion US$): 10 - Cereals
• 5.11% (952 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 4.84% (900 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 4.69% (873 million US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 4.53% (843 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 4.32% (804 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.29% (612 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 2.42% (451 million US$): 31 - Fertilizers

What did Kenya import in 2023?

Kenya's Top Imports in 2023:

• 23% ($4.32 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
• 4.48% ($833 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 3.58% ($666 million): 1001 - Wheat and meslin.
• 2.41% ($449 million): 3004 - Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale
• 2.4% ($448 million): 7208 - Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated
• 2.09% ($389 million): 1006 - Rice
• 2.08% ($388 million): 1701 - Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
• 2.03% ($378 million): 8703 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars
• 1.46% ($272 million): 3105 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing two or three of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; other fertilisers; goods of this Chapter in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg
• 1.28% ($239 million): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons