Kenya education data hub: schools, enrolment, results
55 indicators and 0 data stories, from the Ministry of Education, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics,the World Bank and our own register of 77,717 schools. Every figure carries the publisher and the year it reports. Refreshed on the second of every month and free to quote with attribution.
Exams, latest reported year
The system, latest reported year
Schools on the register
77,717
Ministry of Education school register, 2016 and 2010
Adult literacy
82.2%
World Bank Open Data, 2000
Women per man, tertiary
0.79
was 0.72 in 2023. World Bank Open Data, 2024
Education share of spending
28.5%
was 27.9% in 2024. World Bank Open Data, 2025
Each tile shows the latest year its source has published. Where our store holds an earlier year for the same figure, the tile says what it was.
Index by topic
Every indicator and every data story, filed once. Indicators open on this page. Stories open in full.
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All 55 indicators
Latest value, the year its source reports and the source, by topic. Every topic has its own page with the full series and a sparkline for each indicator.
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Girls and boys: full entries and series | |||
| Adult literacy, men | 87.5% | 2000 | World Bank Open Data |
| Adult literacy, women | 77.9% | 2000 | World Bank Open Data |
| Boys out of primary school | 386,718 | 2023 | World Bank Open Data |
| Gender parity, primary (1.00 is equal) | 0.97 | 2019 | World Bank Open Data |
| Gender parity, secondary | 0.90 | 2009 | World Bank Open Data |
| Gender parity, tertiary | 0.79 | 2024 | World Bank Open Data |
| Girls out of primary school | 17,499 | 2023 | World Bank Open Data |
| Secondary enrolment ratio, boys | 83.9% | 2023 | World Bank Open Data |
| Secondary enrolment ratio, girls | 84.8% | 2023 | World Bank Open Data |
| Tertiary enrolment ratio, men | 11.6% | 2024 | World Bank Open Data |
| Tertiary enrolment ratio, women | 9.23% | 2024 | World Bank Open Data |
| The system: full entries and series | |||
| Adult literacy | 82.2% | 2000 | World Bank Open Data |
| Children out of primary school | 468,923 | 2023 | World Bank Open Data |
| Primary pupils in private schools | 16.0% | 2014 | World Bank Open Data |
| Pupils enrolled in primary school | 8,043,380 | 2023 | World Bank Open Data |
| Pupils per teacher, primary | 30.65 | 2015 | World Bank Open Data |
| Students enrolled in secondary school | 6,737,289 | 2023 | World Bank Open Data |
| Graduates: full entries and series | |||
| Adults 25 and over with a bachelor's degree or higher | 6.76% | 2024 | World Bank Open Data |
| Graduates in agriculture | 2.75% | 2016 | World Bank Open Data |
| Graduates in engineering, manufacturing and construction | 4.22% | 2016 | World Bank Open Data |
| Graduates in health | 5.98% | 2016 | World Bank Open Data |
| Graduates in humanities and arts | 8.26% | 2016 | World Bank Open Data |
| Graduates in science | 7.00% | 2016 | World Bank Open Data |
| Graduates in services | 1.82% | 2016 | World Bank Open Data |
| Graduates in social science, business and law | 5.97% | 2016 | World Bank Open Data |
| Work: full entries and series | |||
| In vulnerable employment | 63.8% | 2025 | World Bank Open Data |
| Self-employed | 64.8% | 2025 | World Bank Open Data |
| Unemployment | 5.45% | 2025 | World Bank Open Data |
| Unemployment among those with advanced education | 7.67% | 2022 | World Bank Open Data |
| Working in agriculture | 45.8% | 2025 | World Bank Open Data |
| Working in industry | 12.5% | 2025 | World Bank Open Data |
| Working in services | 41.7% | 2025 | World Bank Open Data |
| Young people not in education, employment or training | 18.5% | 2021 | World Bank Open Data |
| Money: full entries and series | |||
| Education as a share of government spending | 28.5% | 2025 | World Bank Open Data |
| Education spending as a share of GDP | 4.02% | 2024 | World Bank Open Data |
| GDP per person | $2,363 | 2025 | World Bank Open Data |
| The household: full entries and series | |||
| Children aged 0 to 14 | 20,860,012 | 2025 | World Bank Open Data |
| Children under five who are stunted | 17.6% | 2022 | World Bank Open Data |
| Deaths before age five, per 1,000 | 38.80 | 2024 | World Bank Open Data |
| Gini index of inequality | 38.50 | 2022 | World Bank Open Data |
| Living below the national poverty line | 39.8% | 2022 | World Bank Open Data |
| Population | 57,532,493 | 2025 | World Bank Open Data |
| Population aged 0 to 14 | 36.3% | 2025 | World Bank Open Data |
| Reach: full entries and series | |||
| Fixed broadband per 100 people | 3.04 | 2024 | World Bank Open Data |
| Mobile subscriptions | 71,375,093 | 2024 | World Bank Open Data |
| Mobile subscriptions per 100 people | 126.48 | 2024 | World Bank Open Data |
| Using the internet | 35.0% | 2024 | World Bank Open Data |
| With access to electricity | 77.0% | 2024 | World Bank Open Data |
| With access to electricity, rural | 67.1% | 2024 | World Bank Open Data |
| Our own survey: full entries and series | |||
| Children aged 0 to 14 per school | 268 | 2026 | SchoolRegistry Kenya ours |
| Schools in Nairobi, the largest county | 4,917 | 2026 | SchoolRegistry Kenya ours |
| Schools in the register | 77,717 | 2026 | SchoolRegistry Kenya ours |
| Schools pinned to their own position | 66,203 | 2026 | SchoolRegistry Kenya ours |
| Schools you can telephone | 81 | 2026 | SchoolRegistry Kenya ours |
| Sub-counties covered | 305 | 2026 | SchoolRegistry Kenya ours |
Every school, by county
Counts, sub-counties, telephone coverage and exactly mapped schools for all 47 counties, from the Ministry of Education register with the regulators’ lists added, are on the counties page.
What is going stale
Published rather than hidden. 26 of our 55 figures are either from a source that has not released a newer year, or were entered by hand and are due a re-check. A page that only shows you its fresh numbers is telling you half of what it knows.
- schools.enrolment.primary: the source's latest year is 2023
- schools.enrolment.secondary: the source's latest year is 2023
- schools.outofschool.primary: the source's latest year is 2023
- schools.ptr.primary: the source's latest year is 2015
- schools.private.primary: the source's latest year is 2014
- schools.literacy.adult: the source's latest year is 2000
- gender.gpi.primary: the source's latest year is 2019
- gender.gpi.secondary: the source's latest year is 2009
- gender.secondary.girls: the source's latest year is 2023
- gender.secondary.boys: the source's latest year is 2023
- gender.outofschool.girls: the source's latest year is 2023
- gender.outofschool.boys: the source's latest year is 2023
Using this data
- Can I quote these figures?
- Yes, with attribution to SchoolRegistry Kenya and to the original source named against each figure. We would rather be cited than scraped, so everything here carries its source and the year that source is reporting.
- How current is this?
- The store is refreshed on the second of every month, and was last written on 2026-10-25. Where a source has not published since, the page shows the year that source is reporting rather than implying the figure is current.
- Which of these did you collect yourselves?
- The school register, its mapping and its telephone coverage, marked in gold. Everything else comes from the Ministry of Education, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, the World Bank and UNESCO, and is named.
- Which are the top secondary schools in Kenya?
- There is no official top list. KNEC publishes no school league table, and a ranking needs a published method, so we print none. What we can show is every school on the register and what the register holds about each.
- What is Kenya ranked in education?
- No international ranking is compiled here. What is published is the figures themselves, each with its source and year, in the indicators and stories on this page.
- What are the 5 levels of education in Kenya?
- Our guide to the education system sets out the stages from kindergarten to university, how long each lasts, which exam ends it and who runs it, with the enrolment figures beside them.
- What are the current education issues in Kenya?
- The indicators on this page show where the data points to gaps, such as pupils per teacher and the share of children out of school, and each one names its source and year and says what the data cannot show.
- Why do the graduate field shares not add up to 100?
- Because UNESCO leaves a large part of Kenya's graduate body unclassified. They are individual shares of the graduating cohort, not slices of a whole, and they are not drawn as a pie.