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Kenya vs Tanzania

118 shared metrics.

KenyaLeads in 73

vs118 shared

TanzaniaLeads in 45

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Kenya

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Identity

Formal name: Republic of Kenya.

CIA 2026

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Kenya's Lake Turkana is the world's largest desert lake.

UNESCO

Tanzania

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Identity

Formal name: United Republic of Tanzania.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Tanzania's Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest point and the world's largest free-standing volcanic mass.

UNESCO

Analysis

Kenya leads in 73 of 118 shared metrics, while Tanzania leads in 45.

Kenya's All-Time Olympic Medals is 61.0x that of Tanzania (124 medals vs 2.0 medals).

Kenya's Solar Electricity Share is 9.3x that of Tanzania (4.6% vs 0.45%).

Kenya's Youth Unemployment Rate is 5.4x that of Tanzania (15.25% of youth labor force vs 2.4% of youth labor force).

Kenya's Firms Making Informal Payments is 4.9x that of Tanzania (39.46% of firms vs 6.7% of firms).

Kenya's Credit Card Ownership is 4.3x that of Tanzania (4.4% of adults vs 0.85% of adults).

Key Comparisons

All-Time Olympic MedalsKenya leads

Kenya

124 medals

Tanzania

2.0 medals

Solar Electricity ShareKenya leads

Kenya

4.6%

Tanzania

0.45%

Youth Unemployment RateKenya leads

Kenya

15.25% of youth labor force

Tanzania

2.4% of youth labor force

Firms Making Informal PaymentsKenya leads

Kenya

39.46% of firms

Tanzania

6.7% of firms

Credit Card OwnershipKenya leads

Kenya

4.4% of adults

Tanzania

0.85% of adults

Firms Asked for BribesKenya leads

Tanzania

Kenya

Tanzania

381

93% lower

Comparison of Kenya and Tanzania across 118 metrics
				Winner
All-Time Olympic Medals	124 medals	2.0 medals	6100% higher	Kenya
Solar Electricity Share	4.6%	0.45%	929% higher	Kenya
Youth Unemployment Rate	15.25% of youth labor force	2.4% of youth labor force	540% higher	Kenya
Firms Making Informal Payments	39.46% of firms	6.7% of firms	489% higher	Kenya
Credit Card Ownership	4.4% of adults	0.85% of adults	425% higher	Kenya
Firms Asked for Bribes	33.19% of firms	6.9% of firms	382% higher	Kenya
Water Stress (%)	19.48%	6.2%	216% higher	Kenya
Air Passengers	5.14M	1.91M	169% higher	Kenya
University Enrollment Rate	10.42%	4.0%	159% higher	Kenya
Health Spending Per Capita	$90.44	$35.65	154% higher	Kenya
Milk Consumption per Person	94.86 kg/person/yr	40.29 kg/person/yr	135% higher	Kenya
Doctors (per 1,000)	0.29 per 1k	0.13 per 1k	123% higher	Kenya
Firms Hit by Power Outages	74.61% of firms	34.13% of firms	119% higher	Kenya
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	1.3 per 1k	0.60 per 1k	117% higher	Kenya
Unemployment Rate	5.4%	2.6%	111% higher	Kenya
Electric Generating Capacity	3.82M kW	1.82M kW	110% higher	Kenya
Shipping Traffic	1.45M	700.0K	107% higher	Kenya
Insufficient Physical Activity	9.0% of adults	4.5% of adults	100% higher	Kenya
Spirits Consumption	0.76 L/person/yr	0.39 L/person/yr	95% higher	Kenya
Merchant Fleet Size	26	381	93% lower	Tanzania
Forest Area	36.1K km²	443.4K km²	92% lower	Tanzania
Forest Coverage (%)	6.2%	50.05%	88% lower	Tanzania
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	0.39% of GDP	2.2% of GDP	82% lower	Tanzania
Road Traffic Death Rate	28.2 per 100k	15.8 per 100k	78% higher	Kenya
Alcohol Consumption	2.5 L/adult/yr	10.95 L/adult/yr	77% lower	Tanzania
GNI Per Capita	$2,090	$1,210	73% higher	Kenya
Electricity Carbon Intensity	95.44 gCO2/kWh	345.02 gCO2/kWh	72% lower	Tanzania
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.01 per 100k people	0.05 per 100k people	72% lower	Tanzania
Political Corruption Index	0.56	0.33	71% higher	Kenya
Scientific Publications	2.0K	1.2K	71% higher	Kenya
Airports	344	206	67% higher	Kenya
Mobile Money Accounts	87.5% of adults	52.85% of adults	66% higher	Kenya
Protected Land (%)	14%	40%	65% lower	Tanzania
Freedom of Expression Index	0.90	0.55	63% higher	Kenya
Coastline Length	536 km	1.4K km	62% lower	Tanzania
Electricity Access (%)	76.2%	48.3%	58% higher	Kenya
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$6,644.13	$4,220.8	57% higher	Kenya
Digital Payments Used	89.28% of adults	57.14% of adults	56% higher	Kenya
Electoral Democracy Index	0.56	0.36	54% higher	Kenya
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	190.08 kWh/person	123.47 kWh/person	54% higher	Kenya
Vehicles per 1,000 People	61.9 per 1k people	40.2 per 1k people	54% higher	Kenya
GDP (Nominal)	$120,339,557,905.93	$78,844,405,385.22	53% higher	Kenya
Seafood Consumption per Person	3.0 kg/person/yr	6.2 kg/person/yr	52% lower	Tanzania
Teen Birth Rate	56.31 per 1k	113.21 per 1k	50% lower	Tanzania
Liberal Democracy Index	0.45	0.30	50% higher	Kenya
Capital Elevation	1.7K m	1.1K m	48% higher	Kenya
Inflation Rate	4.5%	3.1%	45% higher	Kenya
Irrigated Land	1.0K km²	1.8K km²	44% lower	Tanzania
Government Debt (% GDP)	53.2% of GDP	38% of GDP	40% higher	Kenya
Health Spending (% GDP)	4.3% of GDP	3.1% of GDP	39% higher	Kenya
Women in Parliament (%)	23.28%	37.4%	38% lower	Tanzania
Border Neighbors	5.0	8.0	37% lower	Tanzania
Food Waste per Person	122.64 kg/person/yr	192.89 kg/person/yr	36% lower	Tanzania
Energy Use (Per Capita)	544.94 kg oil eq/person	405.15 kg oil eq/person	35% higher	Kenya
Land Area	580.9K km²	885.8K km²	34% lower	Tanzania
Time Zones Count	2.0 time zones	3.0 time zones	33% lower	Tanzania
Fertility Rate	3.1 children/woman	4.5 children/woman	31% lower	Tanzania
Homicide Rate	4.9 per 100k	3.7 per 100k	30% higher	Kenya
CO2 Per Capita	0.38 t/person/yr	0.29 t/person/yr	29% higher	Kenya
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0.02 per 1M people	0.01 per 1M people	29% higher	Kenya
Population Density	95.27 /km²	75.21 /km²	27% higher	Kenya
Tobacco Use Prevalence	9.3% of adults	7.3% of adults	27% higher	Kenya
Education Spending (% GDP)	4.0% of GDP	3.2% of GDP	27% higher	Kenya
Corruption Perceptions Index	30 pts	40 pts	25% lower	Tanzania
Water Withdrawal	4.0 B m³	5.2 B m³	22% lower	Tanzania
Birth Rate	25.93 per 1k	33.45 per 1k	22% lower	Tanzania
Dependency Ratio	66.12% of working-age pop.	83.76% of working-age pop.	21% lower	Tanzania
Internet Users (%)	34.98%	29%	21% higher	Kenya
Life Evaluation Score	4.7 pts	3.9 pts	20% higher	Kenya
Population	55.75M	69.15M	19% lower	Tanzania
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	6.6 per 100k	5.6 per 100k	19% higher	Kenya
Land Border Length	3.5K km	4.2K km	17% lower	Tanzania
Electricity Generation	12.85 TWh	10.98 TWh	17% higher	Kenya
Infant Mortality	34.7 per 1k births	29.9 per 1k births	16% higher	Kenya
Beer Consumption	0.57 L/person/yr	0.68 L/person/yr	15% lower	Tanzania
Smoking Rate	10.7%	9.3%	15% higher	Kenya
GDP Growth Rate	4.7%	5.5%	15% lower	Tanzania
Renewable Energy (%)	67.7%	78.3%	14% lower	Tanzania
Armed Forces Personnel	24.0K	28.0K	14% lower	Tanzania
Exports (% GDP)	17.07% of GDP	19.83% of GDP	14% lower	Tanzania
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	8.0 sites	7.0 sites	14% higher	Kenya
Human Development Index	0.63	0.56	13% higher	Kenya
Median Age	19.5 years	17.2 years	13% higher	Kenya
Military Spending	1.00% of GDP	1.2% of GDP	13% lower	Tanzania
Youth Population (%)	36.84%	42.54%	13% lower	Tanzania
Urban Population (%)	31.89%	36.17%	12% lower	Tanzania
Highest Elevation	5.2K m	5.9K m	12% lower	Tanzania
Agricultural Land (%)	49.53%	44.62%	11% higher	Kenya
Sanitation Access (%)	40.88%	37.22%	10% higher	Kenya
Suicide Rate	4.6 per 100k	5.1 per 100k	10% lower	Tanzania
Tax Revenue (% GDP)	14.06% of GDP	12.8% of GDP	10% higher	Kenya
Railway Length	3.8K km	4.1K km	7% lower	Tanzania
Imports (% GDP)	23.12% of GDP	21.68% of GDP	7% higher	Kenya
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	21 days/yr	20 days/yr	5% higher	Kenya
Death Rate	4.7 per 1k	5.0 per 1k	5% lower	Tanzania
Life Expectancy	63.6 years	67.0 years	5% lower	Tanzania
High-Tech Exports (%)	3.1%	3.0%	5% higher	Kenya
Informal Employment Share	86.49% of employed people	90.78% of employed people	5% lower	Tanzania
Women's Political Empowerment	0.80	0.83	4% lower	Tanzania
Obesity Rate	11.04%	11.39%	3% lower	Tanzania
Child Mortality	39.9 per 1k births	38.9 per 1k births	3% higher	Kenya
Average Weekly Work Hours	39.56 hrs/week	40.72 hrs/week	3% lower	Tanzania
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	24.39 µg/m³	25.08 µg/m³	3% lower	Tanzania
Elderly Population (%)	3.0%	3.0%	3% lower	Tanzania
Can Raise Emergency Money	96.6% of adults	94.15% of adults	3% higher	Kenya
Hypertension Prevalence	35.2% of adults	34.9% of adults	1% higher	Kenya
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	126 per 100 people	127 per 100 people	1% lower	Tanzania
Total CO2 Emissions	21.64 Mt CO2e	21.34 Mt CO2e	1% higher	Kenya
Firms with Female Top Manager	17.75% of firms	17.5% of firms	1% higher	Kenya
Coal Electricity Share	0%	0%	ranked higher	Kenya
Wind Electricity Share	16.38%	0%	ranked higher	Kenya
Broadband Access (%)	2.0 per 100 people	2.0 per 100 people	equal	Kenya
Women in Senior Management	29.7% of managers	29.67% of managers	equal	Kenya
Lowest Elevation	0 m	0 m	ranked higher	Kenya
Official Languages Count	2.0	2.0	equal	Kenya
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	-2.7% of GDP	-2.4% of GDP	ranked lower	Tanzania
All-Time Olympic Gold Medals	39 gold medals	0 gold medals	ranked higher	Kenya
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.02 per 1M people	0 per 1M people	ranked higher	Kenya

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Analysis

Kenya leads in 73 of 118 shared metrics, while Tanzania leads in 45.

Kenya's All-Time Olympic Medals is 61.0x that of Tanzania (124 medals vs 2.0 medals).

Kenya's Solar Electricity Share is 9.3x that of Tanzania (4.6% vs 0.45%).

Kenya's Youth Unemployment Rate is 5.4x that of Tanzania (15.25% of youth labor force vs 2.4% of youth labor force).

Kenya's Firms Making Informal Payments is 4.9x that of Tanzania (39.46% of firms vs 6.7% of firms).

Kenya's Credit Card Ownership is 4.3x that of Tanzania (4.4% of adults vs 0.85% of adults).

Key Comparisons

All-Time Olympic MedalsKenya leads

Kenya

124 medals

Tanzania

2.0 medals

Solar Electricity ShareKenya leads

Kenya

4.6%

Tanzania

0.45%

Youth Unemployment RateKenya leads

Kenya

15.25% of youth labor force

Tanzania

2.4% of youth labor force

Firms Making Informal PaymentsKenya leads

Kenya

39.46% of firms

Tanzania

6.7% of firms

Credit Card OwnershipKenya leads

Kenya

4.4% of adults

Tanzania

0.85% of adults

Firms Asked for BribesKenya leads

Kenya

33.19% of firms

Tanzania

6.9% of firms

All-Time Olympic Medals

124 medals

2.0 medals

Solar Electricity Share

4.6%

0.45%

Youth Unemployment Rate

15.25% of youth labor force

2.4% of youth labor force

Firms Making Informal Payments

39.46% of firms

6.7% of firms

Credit Card Ownership

4.4% of adults

0.85% of adults

Firms Asked for Bribes

33.19% of firms

6.9% of firms

Water Stress (%)

19.48%

6.2%

Air Passengers

5.14M

1.91M

University Enrollment Rate

10.42%

4.0%

Health Spending Per Capita

$90.44

$35.65

Milk Consumption per Person

94.86 kg/person/yr

40.29 kg/person/yr

Doctors (per 1,000)

0.29 per 1k

0.13 per 1k

Firms Hit by Power Outages

74.61% of firms

34.13% of firms

Hospital Beds (per 1,000)

1.3 per 1k

0.60 per 1k

Unemployment Rate

5.4%

2.6%

Electric Generating Capacity

3.82M kW

1.82M kW

Shipping Traffic

1.45M

700.0K

Insufficient Physical Activity

9.0% of adults

4.5% of adults

Spirits Consumption

0.76 L/person/yr

0.39 L/person/yr

Merchant Fleet Size

381

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Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

All-Time Olympic Medals

Solar Electricity Share

Youth Unemployment Rate

Firms Making Informal Payments

Credit Card Ownership

Firms Asked for Bribes

Water Stress (%)

Air Passengers

University Enrollment Rate

Health Spending Per Capita

Milk Consumption per Person

Doctors (per 1,000)

Firms Hit by Power Outages

Hospital Beds (per 1,000)

Unemployment Rate

Electric Generating Capacity

Shipping Traffic

Insufficient Physical Activity

Spirits Consumption

Merchant Fleet Size

Forest Area

Forest Coverage (%)

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

Road Traffic Death Rate

Alcohol Consumption

GNI Per Capita

Electricity Carbon Intensity

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Political Corruption Index

Scientific Publications

Airports

Mobile Money Accounts

Protected Land (%)

Freedom of Expression Index

Coastline Length

Electricity Access (%)

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

Digital Payments Used

Electoral Democracy Index

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

Vehicles per 1,000 People

GDP (Nominal)

Seafood Consumption per Person

Teen Birth Rate

Liberal Democracy Index

Capital Elevation

Inflation Rate

Irrigated Land

Government Debt (% GDP)

Health Spending (% GDP)

Women in Parliament (%)

Border Neighbors

Food Waste per Person

Energy Use (Per Capita)

Land Area

Time Zones Count

Fertility Rate

Homicide Rate

CO2 Per Capita

Nobel Laureates Born per Million People

Population Density

Tobacco Use Prevalence

Education Spending (% GDP)

Corruption Perceptions Index

Water Withdrawal

Birth Rate

Dependency Ratio

Internet Users (%)

Life Evaluation Score

Population

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Land Border Length