Annual International Trade Statistics by Country (HS)
Publication date: 2024-01-28
Reporting period: 2002 - 2022
Timeseries: 194 million
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Kenya | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2008 - 2022

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TOTAL. ALL COMMODITIESKenyaWorldExportsValue (US$)5,000,948,541.004,463,443,078.005,169,111,916.005,536,952,633.005,906,821,405.925,697,559,391.245,747,414,819.786,050,420,682.215,836,255,973.926,023,441,806.046,751,366,221.036,583,754,818.44
Value Growth, YoY (%)22.54-10.7415.80-3.540.875.27-3.533.2012.08-2.48
ImportsValue (US$)11,127,817,243.0010,202,000,865.0012,092,926,245.0016,394,469,337.0016,058,041,798.9314,113,435,915.7716,690,197,046.8117,376,721,272.0317,210,001,018.4715,405,370,570.9819,594,117,729.9821,122,237,688.19
Value Growth, YoY (%)23.79-8.3118.53-12.1018.254.11-0.95-10.4827.197.79

The value of merchandise exports from Kenya totalled $ 6.58 billion in 2022. Overall commodity exports from Kenya decreased by 2.48% compared to 2021. Merchandise exports decreased by $ 167 million (the value of merchandise exports from Kenya amounted to $6.75 billion in 2021)

Kenya's exports 2022 by country

Top export destinations of commodities from Kenya in 2022:

  • Uganda with a share of 10.3% (679 million US$)
  • USA with a share of 9.8% (645 million US$)
  • Pakistan with a share of 8.23% (542 million US$)
  • Netherlands with a share of 6.7% (441 million US$)
  • Tanzania with a share of 6.31% (415 million US$)
  • United Kingdom with a share of 5.7% (375 million US$)
  • Rwanda with a share of 4.47% (294 million US$)
  • United Arab Emirates with a share of 3.86% (254 million US$)
  • Egypt with a share of 3.42% (225 million US$)
  • China with a share of 3.41% (225 million US$)

Exports structure from Kenya in 2022 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 26% (1.72 billion US$): 09 - Coffee, tea, matT and spices
  • 10.5% (693 million US$): 06 - Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
  • 5.09% (335 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
  • 4.21% (277 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
  • 4.04% (266 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
  • 3.41% (225 million US$): 62 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted
  • 3.1% (204 million US$): 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
  • 2.79% (184 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
  • 2.64% (173 million US$): 61 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
  • 2.42% (159 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement

What did Kenya export in 2022?

Kenya's Top Exports in 2022:

  • 21% ($1.38 billion): 0902 - Tea, whether or not flavoured
  • 9.54% ($628 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
  • 4.95% ($326 million): 0901 - Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion.
  • 3.78% ($249 million): 2614 - Titanium ores and concentrates
  • 2.51% ($165 million): 0804 - Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried
  • 2.26% ($149 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
  • 1.93% ($127 million): 7210 - Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, clad, plated or coated
  • 1.71% ($112 million): 6203 - Men's or boys' suits, ensembles, jackets, blazers, trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts (other than swimwear).
  • 1.58% ($104 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
  • 1.57% ($103 million): 2836 - Carbonates; peroxocarbonates (percarbonates); commercial ammonium carbonate containing ammonium carbamate.

The value of merchandise imports to Kenya totalled $ 21 billion in 2022. Merchandise imports to Kenya increased by 7.79% compared to 2021. Goods imports grew up by $ 1.52 billion in 2022 (the value of merchandise imports to Kenya was equal to $19.5 billion in 2021)

Kenya's imports 2022 by country

Top trading partners (import sources) of Kenya in 2022:

  • China with a share of 18.2% (3.84 billion US$)
  • United Arab Emirates with a share of 16.3% (3.45 billion US$)
  • India with a share of 10% (2.12 billion US$)
  • Saudi Arabia with a share of 4.9% (1.03 billion US$)
  • Malaysia with a share of 4.84% (1.02 billion US$)
  • Japan with a share of 3.92% (829 million US$)
  • USA with a share of 3.84% (812 million US$)
  • South Africa with a share of 2.45% (518 million US$)
  • Tanzania with a share of 2.14% (452 million US$)
  • Korea with a share of 2.01% (426 million US$)

Imports structure to Kenya in 2022 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 26% (5.59 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
  • 6.73% (1.42 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
  • 5.86% (1.23 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
  • 5.69% (1.2 billion US$): 10 - Cereals
  • 5.47% (1.15 billion US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
  • 5.11% (1.07 billion US$): 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
  • 5% (1.05 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
  • 4.6% (971 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
  • 3.59% (758 million US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
  • 2.31% (488 million US$): 48 - Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard

What did Kenya import in 2022?

Kenya's Top Imports in 2022:

  • 24% ($5.07 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
  • 5.13% ($1.08 billion): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
  • 3.12% ($660 million): 1001 - Wheat and meslin.
  • 2.7% ($570 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
  • 2.46% ($520 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
  • 2.03% ($429 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
  • 1.75% ($370 million): 7207 - Semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel
  • 1.37% ($290 million): 1006 - Rice
  • 1.32% ($279 million): 8517 - Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunication apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems; videophones
  • 1.19% ($252 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

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Kenya | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2008 - 2022