Share of extremely poor people in Kenya, by county 2022
As of 2022, over nine million people in Kenya are living in extreme poverty, with the poverty threshold at 1.90 U.S. dollars a day. This accounts for 18.1 percent of the total population. The number of poor people in the country fluctuated in recent years, following an overall descending trend. In 2016, 20.7 percent of the Kenyan population were in extreme poverty. The number is expected to decline to under seven million people in 2030. Increases in the number of poor inhabitants in 2020 and 2021 are possibly related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
