Kenya's transport services (% of commercial service exports) was 27.86% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 24.76 percentage points from 52.62% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 27.86% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 32.44% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 52.62% | 2015 |
| Highest | 59.49% | 1995 |
| Lowest | 27.86% | 2025 |
| Average since 2016 | 36.54% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 46.98% | 1975 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Kenya's transport services (% of commercial service exports) fell 1.32 percentage points on 2024 (from 29.17% to 27.86%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.9 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.41 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 24.96 percentage points in 1993 and the biggest yearly fall was 14.67 percentage points in 2020. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is downward, about 2.19 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 81% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 19.14% for 2028. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2023 to 2025 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 1.1%, against 6.06% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2025, Kenya had the 31st highest value of the 134 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 27.86% | 2025 |
| World | 18.06% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 25.18% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 19.54% | 2025 |
Closest to Kenya in the 2025 ranking
- Slovak Republic — 28th of 134: 29.32%
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 29th of 134: 28.53%
- Latvia — 30th of 134: 28.41%
- Algeria — 32nd of 134: 27.65%
- Slovenia — 33rd of 134: 27.04%
- Sri Lanka — 34th of 134: 26.7%
What this measures
Transport is the process of carriage of people and objects from one location to another as well as related supporting and auxiliary services. Also included are postal and courier services. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of service exports which are commercial services provided by residents to non-residents.
Limitations: Balance of payments statistics, the main source of information on international trade in services, have many weaknesses. Disaggregation of important components may be limited and varies considerably across countries. There are inconsistencies in the methods used to report items. And the recording of major flows as net items is common (for example, insurance transactions are often recorded as premiums less claims). These factors contribute to a downward bias in the value of the service trade reported in the balance of payments. Efforts are being made to improve the coverage, quality, and consistency of these data.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 51 values
| Year | Transport services (% of commercial service exports) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 27.86 |
| 2024 | 29.17 |
| 2023 | 29.31 |
| 2022 | 34.84 |
| 2021 | 33.36 |
| 2020 | 32.44 |
| 2019 | 47.11 |
| 2018 | 42.35 |
| 2017 | 42.88 |
| 2016 | 46.03 |
| 2015 |
Transport services (% of commercial service exports) in nearby economies
- Angola — 22.83% (2025)
- Benin — 28.57% (2023)
- Botswana — 8.43% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 17.3% (2024)
- Burundi — 7.92% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 11.09% (2025)
- Cameroon — 35.75% (2024)
- Comoros — 6.68% (2023)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 45.24% (2025)
- Congo, Rep.
More private sector & trade data for Kenya
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 22.23% (2025)
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$21.61 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$8.6 billion (2025)
- Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) — 25.82% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 49.35% (2023)
- Merchandise imports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise imports) — 0.0000627% (2023)
- Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$18.59 billion (2023)
- Merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports) — 16.16% (2023)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Kenya's transport services (% of commercial service exports)?
- 27.86% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1975?
- It is down 19.12 percentage points from 46.98% in 1975. The highest value was 59.49% in 1995 and the lowest 27.86% in 2025.
- How does Kenya rank?
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TX.VAL.TRAN.ZS.WT, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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