Kenya Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GDP: $4.5 billion (1985), $280 per capita; real growth rate, 3.5% (1985 est.)

Natural resources: gold, limestone, diotomite, salt barytes, magnesite, feldspar, sapphires, fluorspar, garnets, wildlife, land

Agriculture: main cash crops—coffee, tea, sisal, pyrethrum, cotton, livestock; food crops—corn, wheat, sugarcane, rice, cassava; largely self-sufficient in food

Major industries: small-scale consumer goods (plastic, furniture, batteries, textiles, soap, cigarettes, flour), agricultural processing, oil refining, cement, tourism

Electric power: 550,000 kW capacity (1985); 1.686 billion kWh produced (1985), 83 kWh per capita

Exports. $1,034 million (f o b., 1984); reexporting of petroleum products, coffee, tea, sisal, livestock products, pyrethrum, soda ash, wattle-bark tanning extract

Imports: $1 549 million (c.i.f., 1984); machinery, transport equipment, crude oil, paper and naper products, iron and steel products, and textiles

Major trade partners-EC, Japan, Middle East, US, Zambia, Uganda

Budget: (1982 percent of GDP) revenues and grants 24 %; total expenditure and net lending —28%; debt service ratio (1985) 30% (est)

External public debt: $2.9 billion (1982 est.); debt service payment 23% of exports

Monetary conversion rate: 16.75 Kenya shillings=US $1 (30 September 1985)

Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June

NOTE: The information regarding Kenya on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Kenya 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Kenya 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.