Income Distribution In Kenya 2017

Percentage shares by quintile may not sum to 100 because of rounding.

Income distribution in kenya 2017. Friday november 22 2013. Reducing inequalities in kenya. Website created in 2015 2017 with the collaboration of. Percentage share of income or consumption is the share that accrues to subgroups of population indicated by deciles or quintiles.

This allows us to release. The paper addresses the relationship between income distribution regional and sectoral income disparities and poverty in kenya. Personal relief effective 1 january 2017 is kes 15 360 per annum insurance relief lower of 15 of the premiums and kes 60 000 p a. Kenya the source for global inequality data.

World bank national accounts data and oecd national accounts data files. Online tool for visualization and analysis. Per diems the first kes 2 000 per day is tax exempt as at 16 july 2016 bonuses overtime and retirement benefits paid to individuals whose income does not exceed kes 11 180 per month effective 1 january 2017 is exempt from tax. Three different household groups are distinguisheds urban households smallholders and other rural families.

Selected countries and economies. Differences in income and social status are observed across regions gender and even specific segments of the population. Open access high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by an international academic consortium. Gdp per capita current us kenya.

Inequalities in kenya are manifested in different forms. Benjamin grillet françois prosper brice terdjman anthony veyssière. World bank development research group. Gdp per capita ppp constant 2017 international inflation gdp deflator annual oil rents of gdp download.

Subscribe export view archive. Kenya gini index was 41 6 in 2018 down by 0 00 from the previous year. The united states rank last in child income poverty has the largest difference in p90 p10 and has the highest percentage of people living below 50 median income. The data used in the estimation of the degree of income inequality are consistent with the national accounts and the population census.

Gini index measures the extent to which the distribution of income or consumption expenditure among individuals or households within an economy deviates from a perfectly equal distribution. Mortgage relief mortgage interest deduction up to a maximum of kes 300 000 p a. Kenya income distribution income share held by second 20. A lorenz curve plots the cumulative percentages of total income received against the cumulative number of recipients starting with.