Shrinking job market, skills gap leave Kenya with 3.5 million idle youth

Around 3.5 million Kenyan youth are jobless and not in school, indicating they are idle in an economic setting where businesses have frozen hiring.

Data published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) show that 19 percent of 18.37 million youngsters aged between 15 and 34 were idle in the quarter ended December.