Transport and infrastructure in Kenya

Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Kenya with the average of all countries in Africa. The traffic routes have noticeable defects in many places and are often not in a particularly good condition.

In terms of the length of its rail network, Kenya ranks 92nd in the world with 0.07 meters per inhabitant. In total, the rail network is 3,819 kilometers long.

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Road traffic

The network of roads and highways has a total length of 177,800 km. For each of the country's 53.77 million inhabitants, this corresponds to 3.31 meters. This puts Kenya in 141st place in the global ranking. However, the country's size and population density of around 93 inhabitants per km² must also be taken into account. Countries with fewer inhabitants on the same or even larger area naturally achieve quite different values here and have to connect remote areas to the transport network despite a smaller population.

With an average of 13385 traffic fatalities per year (2012 - 2019), road traffic in Kenya is considered quite dangerous. This corresponds to around 4.3 accident fatalities per 27.3 inhabitants per year. By comparison, this figure is 5.9 in the European Union as a whole and 17.1 worldwide.

In Kenya, traffic drives on the right-hand side of the road, i.e. people drive in the right-hand lane and overtake on the left. Oncoming traffic comes toward you on the left side. Here you can also find an overview of all countries with left-hand traffic.

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Kenya
Roadways	177,800 km	3,306.60 km	306.36 m
Railroads	3,800 km	71.02 km	6.58 m
Waterways	0 km	0.00 km	0.00 m
Commercial harbors	26	0.48	0.000
Airports	197	3.66	0.339

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Africa
Roadways	3,002,100 km	2,239.70 km	99.00 m
Railroads	88,600 km	66.09 km	2.92 m
Waterways	50,100 km	37.35 km	1.65 m
Commercial harbors	7,829	5.84	0.000
Airports	3,159	2.36	0.000

Data sources used

• Global Health Observatory Data Repository (World Health Organization)
• UNCTAD
• Internation Union of Railways (UIC)
• CIA Factbook
• OECD Statistics
• Wikipedia (german)

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