How Many Young Kenyans Are Unemployed?

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Youth unemployment in Kenya should be declared a national disaster, a lawmaker told Kenya National Assembly in August 2018. In a motion calling for a special fund to tackle the problem, Mathere MP Anthony Oluoch said, "overall unemployment among youth is 55%". The proposed fund would be at least 5% of annual national revenue collections.

The legislator also said 70% of Kenyans population is younger than 35%.

Various youth unemployment rates bestride public debate in Kenya. A 2017 study backed by the British government put it at a "staggering" 22% of those aged is to 24 in 2016.

In a much - reported 2016 survey, two Aga Khan University scholars found the rate among those over 18 but under 35 to be 55%.

Some publications have put youth unemployment at 90% of all unemployed Kenyans, while a September 2018 statistics update by the United Nations Development Programme placed Kenya's youth unemployment rate at 26.2% in 2017. This was for those aged 15 to 24.

The recent jobs survey from Kenya's statistics agency is the 2015/2016 Basic Labour Force Report released in March 2018. it estimated there were 1.22 million unemployed Kenyans aged 15 - 34 in September 2015 to August 2016, when the survey were carried out.

The 1.22 million unemployed make up 11.4% of the 10.7 million Kenyans aged 15 to 34 who are part of the labour force. This puts the official youth unemployment rate at 11.4%

Overall, the national unemployment rate for the entire labour force was 7.4%. The data agency said the 15 to 34 age band made up 55.3% of the labour force, and 85% of unemployed people were younger than 35.


Source: 2015/2016 Labour Force Basic Report

 The survey did not capture the educational qualifications of unemployed youths.

 The 2015/2016 labour force report shows 20.9% of those aged 15 to 34 years were visibly underemployed. This was against a national underemployment rate of 24%.

The statistics office said its survey did not cover areas such as formal and informal work, multiple jobs, earnings, literacy and those not in the labour force. It recommended more research into those topics, with a new survey announced in September in 2018.

Edited By Azugbene Godson Solomon

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