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Average wage earnings during each president's tenure

Every president since 1991, ranked by how average wage earnings changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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1UDA William Ruto 13 Sep 2022 – now −2.5% 2022 → 2025−0.8%/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that count had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. KSh thousand a year, in today's money, per wage employee · Kenya 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 · Kenya data · as of Sep 2026.

Sources: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (Economic Survey: wage employment and earnings; quarterly national accounts and consumer prices via the IMF; Continuous Household Survey via ILOSTAT), Central Bank of Kenya (exchange rate, via the IMF), IMF (World Economic Outlook: government debt), World Bank (GDP before 2009, population, access to electricity), ILO, Natural Earth, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, World Happiness Report, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; presidents checked against the official lists. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy