Rankings · Kenya

Presidents

• Real GDP during each president's tenureKenya National Bureau of Statistics quarterly national accounts via the IMF (QNEA, B1GQ, constant 2016 prices), summed over the trailing four quarters, from 2009; the World Bank's GDP at constant 2016 shillings by calendar year before, rescaled to 2009
• Real GDP per person during each president's tenureKenya National Bureau of Statistics quarterly GDP via the IMF (constant 2016 prices), summed over the trailing four quarters (the World Bank's yearly GDP before 2009), over the population (World Bank, the UN's estimates) interpolated to the quarter
• Unemployment rate during each president's tenureKenya National Bureau of Statistics, Kenya Continuous Household Survey, persons aged 15 and over, as ILOSTAT compiles it: eight quarters from January-March 2019 to October-December 2021; the bureau's own quarterly reports (to 2022) are PDFs, nothing later is published
• Employment rate, 15 and over during each president's tenureKenya National Bureau of Statistics, Kenya Continuous Household Survey, persons aged 15 and over, as ILOSTAT compiles it: eight quarters from January-March 2019 to October-December 2021; the bureau's own quarterly reports (to 2022) are PDFs, nothing later is published
• Wage employment during each president's tenureKenya National Bureau of Statistics, Economic Survey (the newest edition's chapter 3 workbook), Table 3.1: wage employees in modern establishments, private and public, as of June; the latest year provisional
• Average wage earnings during each president's tenureKenya National Bureau of Statistics, Economic Survey (the newest edition's chapter 3 workbook), Table 3.7: average wage earnings per employee in modern establishments, private and public, June earnings annualised, adjusted for inflation with the CPI (IMF); the latest year provisional
• Inflation (CPI) during each president's tenureKenya National Bureau of Statistics consumer price index via the IMF (CPI, all items, spliced across base years by the IMF), national, change on the same month a year earlier
• Consumer prices (CPI) during each president's tenureKenya National Bureau of Statistics consumer price index via the IMF (CPI, all items, the bureau's base years spliced into one index by the IMF, 2010 = 100), national
• Exchange rate during each president's tenureCentral Bank of Kenya's rate via the IMF (ER, shillings per US dollar, period average)
• Government debt during each president's tenureIMF World Economic Outlook, general government gross debt (GGXWDG_NGDP), calendar years, the years of actual figures only (the latest an estimate)
• Access to electricity during each president's tenureWorld Bank (EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS), from household surveys and censuses, the years between them modelled by the World Bank, from 2000
• Population during each president's tenureWorld Bank (SP.POP.TOTL) from the UN's World Population Prospects, mid-year; the 2019 census counted 47.6 million
• Happiness during each president's tenureWorld Happiness Report, Figure 2.1 data (Gallup World Poll): life evaluation, the national average answer to Gallup's question of where on a ladder from 0 (the worst possible life) to 10 (the best) people stand today; each point the average of three years of surveys, dated at the middle one, with the WHR's 95 % interval from 2019; 2013 is not published
• Government effectiveness during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_GE.SC): perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service and of policy-making, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Regulatory quality during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RQ.SC): perceptions of the government's ability to make and carry out sound rules that let private business form and compete, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Rule of law during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RL.SC): confidence in contracts, property rights, the police and the courts, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Control of corruption during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_CC.SC): perceptions of public power used for private gain, petty and grand, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Corruption perceptions index during each president's tenureTransparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI score): perceived public-sector corruption as business people and country experts rate it, comparable from 2012, the score as TI publishes it with its confidence interval
• Voice and accountability during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_VA.SC): perceptions of how far citizens can take part in choosing their government, and of freedom of expression, association and the media, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Electoral democracy index during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_polyarchy): the electoral democracy index, free and fair elections with wide suffrage and the freedoms of association and expression that make them count, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
• Liberal democracy index during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_libdem): the liberal democracy index, electoral democracy plus the checks on the executive and the rights of the person, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
• Freedom of expression during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_freexp_altinf): the freedom of expression and alternative sources of information index, the press, academic and private speech and the media's independence, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
• Political stability during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_PV.SC): perceptions of the likelihood of political instability or politically motivated violence, terrorism included, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval