KenyaandUganda

12 December 1963 · 9 October 1962

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

Kenya

12 December 1963 — Kenya becomes independent of Britain

Dossier →Chronicle →

Uganda

9 October 1962 — Uganda becomes independent of Britain

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
42
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-22

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

KENUGA
  • GDP
    $136 B2025$62 B2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $2,3632025$1,2062025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    4.6%20256.3%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    4.1%20253.6%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    37.5%202550.2%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

KENUGA
  • Population
    58 m202551 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    63.8 yrs202468.5 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    32.2%202531.9%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    3.220244.22024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

KENUGA

Health

KENUGA
  • Health spending
    4.4%20234.2%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    0.2920230.192022
    Observed 2023 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    38.8202448.72024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    88.0%202490.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    —18.1%2024
    Observed — / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

KENUGA
  • Adult literacy
    82.2%200077.0%2024
    Observed 2000 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Education spending
    4.0%20242.6%2022
    Observed 2024 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    98.2%2023106.2%2017
    Observed 2023 / 2017 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    84.3%202324.1%2007
    Observed 2023 / 2007 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    10.4%20244.6%2014
    Observed 2024 / 2014 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

KENUGA
  • R&D spending
    0.8%20240.4%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    3842024812023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    35.0%20248.9%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    1262024832024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    3.2%20241.9%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

KENUGA
  • Land area
    580,876 km²2023200,520 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    6.2%202311.0%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    49.5%202371.9%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    0.420240.22024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    67.7%202190.9%2022
    Observed 2021 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

KENUGA
  • Resource rents
    1.2%20217.5%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    1.2%20217.5%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    77.0%202455.3%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Military

KENUGA
  • Military burden
    1.0%20241.9%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $1.2 B2024$1.1 B2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    24,000202046,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 1896–1901

    The Uganda Railway is built

    The 'Lunatic Line' is driven from Mombasa to Lake Victoria, built largely by indentured Indian labourers; it reaches Nairobi in 1899 and opens the interior to settlement.

    Colonisation · from the Kenya chronicle · British East Africa and the Settler Colony · REFS 2 — Uganda Railway, History of Kenya