New businesses registered in Kenya

58,919 companies were registered in Kenya in 2024. The value for 2024 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2017.

Measure: New businesses registered Unit: New limited liability companies Data: 2017 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Kenya, 2024 58,919 New limited liability companies
Change from 2023 +3.3% 2023: 57,016 companies

New businesses registered in Kenya over time

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New limited liability companies. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

New businesses registered (new limited liability companies), 2017 to 2024
Period Kenya
2024 58,919 companies
2023 57,016 companies
2022 52,154 companies
2021 48,386 companies
2020 49,037 companies
2019 42,085 companies
2018 44,381 companies
2017 37,733 companies

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +3.3% from 57,016 companies in 2023.
  • Since 2017, when it was 37,733 companies, the figure has changed by +56.1%.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Entrepreneurship Database
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
IC.BUS.NREG · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2017 to 2024 for Kenya
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Entrepreneurship Database