{"id":107790,"date":"2025-01-16T06:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T06:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/nakuru-county-emerges-as-kenyas-largest-economy-surpassing-kiambu\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T06:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T06:03:14","slug":"nakuru-county-emerges-as-kenyas-largest-economy-surpassing-kiambu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/nakuru-county-emerges-as-kenyas-largest-economy-surpassing-kiambu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nakuru County emerges as Kenya\u2019s largest economy, surpassing Kiambu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A report by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) has placed Nakuru County as the largest economy in the country, overtaking Kiambu County. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the 2024 Gross County Product (GCP) report, Nakuru\u2019s economy grew to 785.75 billion shillings in 2023, contributing 5.7 percent to Kenya\u2019s GDP, up from 4.9 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kiambu\u2019s GDP stands at 760.82 billion shillings, accounting for 5.6 percent, down from 5.7 percent during the same period. Experts attribute Nakuru\u2019s growth to investments in agriculture, tourism, and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Kiambu\u2019s slight decline highlights the need for diversification and innovation to maintain its economic strength.<\/p>\n<p>The report also lists the top five counties, with Nairobi leading, followed by Nakuru, Kiambu, Mombasa, and Machakos.<\/p>\n<p>Mombasa saw the largest drop, with its GDP share falling from 5.0 percent to 4.8 percent during the period.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.ke\/nakuru-county-emerges-as-kenyas-largest-economy-surpassing-kiambu\/\">Nakuru County emerges as Kenya\u2019s largest economy, surpassing Kiambu<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) has placed Nakuru County as the largest economy in the country, overtaking Kiambu County. According to the 2024 Gross County Product (GCP) report, Nakuru\u2019s economy grew to 785.75 billion shillings in 2023, contributing 5.7 percent to Kenya\u2019s GDP, up from 4.9 percent in 2019. Meanwhile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}