Sectors employing most Kenyans where you can secure a job- Report
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Sectors employing most Kenyans; with a high rate of job creation according to a report by Kenya National Bureau of Statistics
Sectors employing most Kenyans; with a high rate of job creation according to a report by Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.
According to an examination of employment trends in Kenya between 2012 and 2021 that used government data on employment in the formal sector, the number of jobs created in the construction industry as a whole increased by 95%.
Between 2012 and 2021, the number of jobs created by private industry doubled, from 98 700 to 217 300.
According to data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, job growth in the construction and educational sectors increased the most during the past ten years.
Education employed a total of 609,200 Kenyans in 2021, up from 384,800 in 2012.
This translates to about 25,000 new jobs annually over the past decade.
According to a Commission for University Education (CUE) report from 2017–18, the majority of education graduates were at the bachelor’s level, which is consistent with a large number of graduates in this field leaving institutions.
“The top three domains with the highest number of graduates at the Bachelors level were education (26 percent) followed by business, administration, and law (25 percent) and natural sciences, mathematics and statistics (12 percent),” the CUE report showed.
Overall analysis shows that six sectors have dominated Kenya’s employment sphere since 2012, offering at least 71 percent of all the formal jobs in the country.
Other than education and construction, others are manufacturing, public administration and defence, agriculture, and trade (wholesale and retail). Together, the six sectors employed 2.09 million people out of the total 2.9 million Kenyans employed formally in 2021.
Kenya’s manufacturing sector has increased by roughly 25% in the last ten years, from employing 271,000 people in 2012 to 336,800 employees in 2021.
The wholesale and retail sector has also increased significantly, with a 30 percent expansion to employ 256,300 workers by 2021.
The agriculture industry continued to employ the majority of Kenyans over the past ten years, employing 337,200 by 2021 despite a 0.15 percent contraction from 2012 to 2021.
The data indicates that the six sectors account for a significant portion of Kenya’s economic growth and point to areas where institutions of higher education may focus their training efforts to better prepare students for the workforce.
Kenya’s private sector continues to support the economy with the provision of most jobs.
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Among private sectors that have exhibited huge growth in job creation over the past decade are construction (120 percent growth), education (97 percent), information and communication technology (57.4 percent), human health and social work (44.6 percent), and financial and insurance activities (30 percent).
The biggest employers in the private sector remain manufacturing (313,500 jobs by 2021), agriculture (295,300 jobs in 2021), wholesale and retail (256,300 jobs in 2021), construction (217,300 jobs), and education (210,600).
By 2021, at least 132,100 people were employed in the ICT sector, 106,700 in the social work sector, and 66,800 in the financial and insurance sector.
On the other hand, in the public sector education remains the biggest employer, providing 398,600 jobs in 2021, followed by public administration and defence —police, prison, and military — which together employed 329,800 officers in 2021 and social work (47,400).
Sectors creating large numbers of jobs in the public sector over the past decade have been public administration and defence (59 percent), social work (53.4 percent), and education (43.4 percent).
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