Country Risk Index · KEN

Kenya

East Africa · May 2026 snapshot

31/ 100 CRI
Contained

Peer rank #7 of 10

MoM -0.9

CRI trend

Apr 2026 · May 2026

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Pillar scores

Currency (20%)
3
Sovereign (20%)
24
Regulatory (15%)
47
Counterparty (15%)
40
Liquidity (15%)
37
Political (15%)
50

Indicator inputs


Currency

3
Parallel-vs-official FX premium
1 %n2
12-month local-currency depreciation
6 %n2
Inflation (YoY)
5 %n4

Sovereign

24
External debt / GDP
37 %n21
In external arrears
0 0/1n0
ICRG-style sovereign band
6 1–10n50

Regulatory

47
Months since last RBZ/FX directive
55 monthsn25
Investment-approval backlog
5 weeksn17
FATF grey/black-list status
1 0/1/2n100

Counterparty

40
Banking-sector NPL ratio
13 %n69
State-owned-enterprise share of economy
20 %n10

Liquidity

37
Equity-market turnover / market-cap
13 %n68
Days to repatriate USD
12 daysn6

Political

50
Months to next national election
13 monthsn81
ACLED conflict-events trend
30 indexn26
Governance percentile
45 0–100n42

Each row shows the raw indicator value and (n) its peer-relative normalised 0–100 risk value. Source: desk estimates from public data.

Indicative composite · Not investment advice · May 2026