NAIROBI, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Kenya’s economy grew by 4.9% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2025, from 4.2% in the same quarter the previous year, statistics office data showed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\n The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said in a report the growth mainly came from the agriculture sector and the construction industry, which rebounded from a contraction of 2.6% in the same quarter in 2024 to an expansion of 6.7% in 2025.<\/p>\n
\n The statistics agency added that a recovery from the mining and quarrying sector also offered some support.<\/p>\n
\n The East African economy has been weighed down by heavy debt repayments in recent years after it increased borrowing to fund infrastructure projects, forcing the government to pursue fiscal consolidation.<\/p>\n
\n In August, President William Ruto said East Africa’s largest economy was forecast to grow 5.6% in 2025, up from 4.7% in 2024.<\/p>\n
\n The World Bank lifted Kenya’s economic growth forecast for last year to 4.9% from 4.5%, citing a pick-up in the construction sector.<\/p>\n
\n Some of Kenya’s main industries, such as construction, suffered in 2024 partly as concerns mounted about the government’s finances, but the trend has begun to reverse, the development lender said.<\/p>\n
\n (Reporting by Sfundo Parakozov and Vincent Mumo Nzilani; Editing by Alex Richardson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAIROBI, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Kenya’s economy grew by 4.9% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2025, from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[80,2187],"class_list":{"0":"post-7546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-kenya","9":"tag-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}