The 2019 Economic Survey Report that was launched yesterday has given us yet another set of statistics that we must thoroughly interrogate to see if they correlate with the reality on the ground. The data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics shows that the government created 1.8 million jobs in the last six years which is equivalent to 360,000 new jobs per year. The report shows that the number of new jobs created last year went down by 69,400 from 909,800 reported in 2017- only 840, 600 jobs were created in the year under review. For the first time since 2014, slightly post President Mwai Kibaki regime, the new jobs created in the informal sector dropped to 762.2 million jobs. There has been growing concern raised by Kenyans on these economic growth statistics and their day to day experience.

Source: The Star April 26, 2019 03:56 UTC