Number of people living in extreme poverty in Kenya 2016-2025
As of 2021, over 7.8 million people in Kenya lived in extreme poverty, with the poverty threshold at 1.90 U.S. dollars a day. The number of poor people in the country fluctuated in recent years, following an overall descending trend. In 2016, there were nearly nine million Kenyans in extreme poverty. The number is expected to decline to some six million people in 2025. Increases in the number of poor inhabitants in 2020 and 2021 are possibly related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.