Slightly over a million Kenyans escaped from poverty in 2021 as the economy recovered from the ravages the Covid-19 pandemic that had rendered many workers jobless.
A new report on poverty by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows that there were 19.1 million Kenyans who lived below the poverty line in 2021, a drop from 20.9 million in 2020, pointing to a recovery of the economy.
