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Kenya

Kenya's best placing is 19th of 193 for airports.

Best placing: #19Airports
Top 10 placings: 0 / 17
Population: 57.5 million
Land area: 580,876 km²

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Best placings first. The bar shows how far up the ranking Kenya is.

Airports

#19 of 193

368 airports

2nd in Africa · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Population

#26 of 195

57,532,493 people

7th in Africa · World Bank · 2025

Land area

#45 of 194

580,876 km² of land

22nd in Africa · World Bank · 2023

GDP

#60 of 182

135,941,278,879 US$ (current prices)

6th in Africa · World Bank · 2025

Railways

#51 of 135

3,819 km of railway

8th in Africa · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2018

Forest

#81 of 194

36,111 km² of forest

28th in Africa · World Bank · 2023

Airports by area

#80 of 191

6.34 airports per 10,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Population by area

#91 of 194

99.04 people per km²

World Bank · 2025

Airports per person

#91 of 192

6.40 airports per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Land area per person

#104 of 194

0.010 km² of land per person

World Bank · 2023

Railways by area

#74 of 133

6.57 km of railway per 1,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2018

Coastline

#92 of 151

536 km of coastline

21st in Africa · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Railways per person

#90 of 134

66.38 km of railway per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2018

Rainfall

#125 of 179

630 mm of precipitation per year

37th in Africa · World Bank · 2022

Forest per person

#150 of 194

0.0006 km² of forest per person

World Bank · 2023

GDP per person

#145 of 182

2,363 GDP per person (US$)

World Bank · 2025

Forest by area

#164 of 194

6.2 % of land area covered by forest

World Bank · 2023

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