Kenya · Infrastructure
Kenya’s highways authority describes the Nairobi Expressway as 27.1 km. Its separate Nairobi to Mau Summit project brief estimates 233 km across two road packages.
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27.1 · Mlolongo to James Gichuru Road Junction Source 1
175 · A8 project road Source 2
58 · Alternative section in the same project brief Source 2
233 · Sum of the two proposed packages Source 2
The combined proposal covers the 175 km and 58 km packages. The 27.1 km Expressway is separate.
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport handled 408,409 tonnes of commercial cargo in 2025, or about 97.3% of the total reported by Kenya’s statistics bureau. Moi International Airport handled 6,208 tonnes.
The 2026 Economic Survey puts Kenya’s cement consumption 20.3% higher in 2025. Commercial bank construction lending rose and input inflation slowed, while the value of private building plans approved in Nairobi fell.
Domestic electricity consumption rose by 686.75 GWh in the year to June 2026, the largest increase among Kenya’s customer categories. Large commercial and industrial customers still consumed the most, while the Nairobi utility region accounted for nearly 44% of the national total.
Kenya recorded 55,956 tonnes of electronic waste generated in 2025, up from 46,211 tonnes in 2020. Small equipment accounted for 21,942 tonnes and grew more than any other reported category.
Kenya’s National Cereals and Produce Board reported leased grain storage capacity of 38.16 million 50 kg bag equivalents at the end of 2025. Uasin Gishu, Nakuru and Nairobi accounted for about two-fifths of the total.
Kenya’s geothermal plants produced 5,982 GWh in 2025. Hydro generation fell from the previous year, while imports increased to 1,721 GWh. The full series separates locally generated power from cross-border supply.
Kenya’s reported irrigation scheme paddy output reached 303,724 tonnes in 2024/25. Mwea produced 161,183 tonnes, about 53% of the reported total. Ahero and the Taveta clusters were the next largest entries.
Konza reported 171 data centre clients and 17 completed buildings in 2025, up from 134 and nine a year earlier. Reported road and fibre lengths were unchanged. The project records separate building work, utility use, digital services and investment.
Kenya’s Economic Survey puts licensed captive capacity at a provisional 427.2 MW in 2025, up from 133.5 MW in 2018. Solar reached 122.2 MW and waste heat recovery 83.5 MW. The table counts licensed capacity for facilities generating power for their own use.
Kenya Railways’ published Nairobi to Mombasa timetable lists seven intermediate stops on the morning inter-county service. The afternoon and night trains both list Voi as their only intermediate stop. The Suswa service has a separate five-stop schedule.
The Kibwezi to Mutomo to Kitui package had the highest estimated cost among the road construction projects in Kenya’s December 2025 survey table. The selected list also shows substantial differences in reported completion among neighboring road sections.
Mombasa recorded 36.033 million tonnes of imports in the 2026 Economic Survey’s provisional 2025 table, up from 30.007 million in 2024. Dry general cargo added 2.349 million tonnes, while dry bulk and bulk liquids also grew.
Kenya’s geothermal capacity rose from 943.7 MW to 1,013.7 MW in the year to June 2026. Two 35 MW projects at Menengai in Nakuru County accounted for the increase. The project timeline connects those additions to the units that built up Olkaria, and the table tracks five years of national geothermal electricity production.
Kenya’s pipeline throughput of four white petroleum products reached 9.19 million cubic metres in 2025, up 8.0%. Transit volumes grew 12.9% and domestic volumes grew 3.9%.
Kenya reported 457 post offices and 1,158 private courier outlets in 2025. The number of private courier outlets rose, while their domestic parcel count fell from 11.13 million in 2024 to 9.21 million.
May 2026 had the highest reported interruption burden in Kenya’s fiscal year, with 27.33 hours of total interruption per customer and 4.98 interruptions per customer. The regulator tracks those two measures separately from average outage duration.
Kenya reported 7,148 completed public residential units in 2025. At the end of the year, a separate count showed 205,311 units under construction across affordable, institutional, social and National Housing Corporation projects.
Kenya’s standard and metre gauge systems each recorded about 2.73 million passenger journeys in 2025. Freight tonnage and reported revenue tell a different story about how the networks were used.
Kenya Roads Board disbursements fell from KSh 80.07 billion in 2023/24 to KSh 69.54 billion in 2024/25, a drop of 13.2%. The fuel levy supplied about 98% of the latest provisional total.
Kenya recorded 395,235 new vehicle registrations in 2025, up from 267,193 in 2024. Motorcycles and autocycles accounted for 123,455 of the increase of 128,042 units.
Kenya recorded 28,149.9 kilometres of Class C rural roads in 2025, including 5,163.3 paved kilometres. Kitui had the longest recorded network, while Murang’a had the most paved kilometres. County totals give a different view of the network from national construction budgets.
Kenya reported 24.161 terabits per second of undersea bandwidth capacity in 2025, with 14.383 terabits per second utilized. The amount in use reached a high even as its share of the available capacity fell.
Coverage in Kenya’s regulated water service areas rose from 65% in 2022/23 to 72% in 2024/25. Over the same period, the regulator’s reported non-revenue water indicator rose from 43% to 48%.
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