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United Kingdom loses grip as top source of Kenya’s diaspora inflows
North America remained the largest source, contributing 47.1 percent of total cash remittances, largely driven by the United States, which alone sent Sh388.1 billion in cash and Sh17.3 billion in goods.
The United Kingdom’s long-held position as one of Kenya’s biggest sources of diaspora remittances is steadily fading, with new data showing that it has slipped behind emerging migration destinations such as Germany, Australia and even South Sudan.
A joint survey by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) and Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Kenya shows Kenyans in the UK sent home Sh35.9 billion in cash and in-kind remittances in the year to May 2025, placing Britain eighth among individual source countries.
