(WIPO code: KE) (last revised January 2023)
Kenya
General Information
Area
582,644 sq. km.
Population
56,625,281 (estimated December 2022).
Capital
Nairobi.
Official languages
English and Kiswahili (the new Constitution, 2010).
National Language
Kiswahili; legislation debated in English or Swahili, enacted in English.
Currency
Kenya Shilling (KES).
Economy
Predominantly agricultural; secondary consumer and processing industries. Tourist industry is well advanced and very important to the economy.
Imports
Manufactured goods, transportation, machinery, vehicles, fuel oils and lubricants, foodstuffs, chemicals, beverages and tobacco, plastics, iron, resins.
Exports
Coffee, tea, fresh or dried flowers, processed petroleum oils, titanium ores and concentrates, sisal, pyrethrum, meat products, cement, soda ash, cotton, hides and skins, wattle bark, pineapples and horticultural products, artifacts.
Principal airport
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Nairobi.
Principal seeport
Mombasa.