Population with tertiary education — all countries

Population with tertiary education — Kenya

Population with tertiary education in Kenya in 2024 — 6.76%. Ranked 34 in the world out of 41. Since 2019, the indicator has risen by 1.56 pp.

2024 6.76% +1.28 pp vs 2022
World rank 34of 41
Period maximum 6.76%2024
Period minimum 3.74%2020

Trend over time

2019–2024 · % of population aged 25+

Population with tertiary education — Kenya, 2019–2024345672019202020212022202320242019: 5.19%2020: 3.74%2021: 5.69%2022: 5.48%2024: 6.76%
Change over the period: +1.56 pp Annual average: 0.31 pp
Population with tertiary education — Kenya, by year Kenya All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 6.76
2022 5.48 −0.21 pp
2021 5.69 +1.95 pp
2020 3.74 −1.45 pp
2019 5.19

Eastern Africa, 2024

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

About the indicator

The share of the population aged 25 and older that has completed education at the bachelor's level or above. It differs fundamentally from tertiary enrollment: enrollment counts current students, while this indicator is the accumulated result of past decades, so it changes slowly and reflects not the policy of today but the state of the system twenty or thirty years ago.

Important: An accumulated stock, not the current flow: a country whose tertiary enrollment has grown quickly will keep catching up on this indicator for another generation.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), license CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.