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Kenya GDP Grows at Slowest Pace Since 2020 as Drought Weighs
A water relief truck to assist villagers and their livestock in Banissa, Kenya.
Photographer: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty ImagesKenya’s economy expanded at its slowest pace in five years in 2025, as drought weighed on the East African nation’s key agricultural sector.
Gross domestic product grew 4.6% in 2025, compared with 4.7% a year earlier, data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday. That marked the slowest pace since 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.