<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Kenya<nl>Economy</hdr><body>
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<item><hi format=bold>Overview:</hi> Kenya's 3.1% annual population growth rate—one of the highest in the world—has led to a decline in per capita output in each of the last three years, 1991-93. Undependable weather conditions and a shortage of arable land hamper long-term growth in agriculture, the leading economic sector. In industry and services, Nairobi's reluctance to embrace IMF-supported reforms has held back investment. Ethnic clashes and continued suspension of quick disbursing aid by the international donors kept growth at only 0.5% in 1993.
<item><hi format=bold>National product:</hi> GDP—purchasing power equivalent—$33.2 billion (1993 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>National product real growth rate:</hi> 0.5% (1993 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>National product per capita:</hi> $1,200 (1993 est.)
<item>• <hi format=ital>commodities:</hi> machinery and transportation equipment 29%, petroleum and petroleum products 15%, iron and steel 7%, raw materials, food and consumer goods (1989)
<item>• <hi format=ital>partners:</hi> EC 46%, Asia 23%, Middle East 20%, US 5% (1991)
<item><hi format=bold>Agriculture:</hi> most important sector, accounting for 25% of GDP and 65% of exports; cash crops—coffee, tea, sisal, pineapple; food products—corn, wheat, sugarcane, fruit, vegetables, dairy products, beef, pork, poultry, eggs; food output not keeping pace with population growth, and crop production has been extended into marginal land
<item><hi format=bold>Illicit drugs:</hi> widespread wild, small-plot cultivation of marijuana and gat; most locally consumed; transit country for Southwest Asian heroin moving to West Africa and onward to Europe and North America; Indian methaqualone also transits on way to South Africa
<item><hi format=bold>Economic aid:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>recipient:</hi> US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $839 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $7.49 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $74 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $83 million