Brighter Futures: Breaking Cycles of Poverty for Kenya’s Children – 2025 Report
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August
2025
Overview
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) is pleased to present Brighter Futures: Breaking Cycles of Poverty for Kenya’s Children Report, developed in close collaboration with UNICEF Kenya and UN Women. This report is a timely and critical contribution to our national efforts to understand and address the multiple and overlapping vulnerabilities facing children across the country. As the principal agency for official statistics in Kenya, KNBS remains committed to generating and availing high quality data that informs policy, planning, and development programming. This report draws on the latest Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (2022) and applies UNICEF’s Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis (MODA) to provide a comprehensive picture of child vulnerability in Kenya today. More than half (55%) of Kenyan children are multidimensionally poor, experiencing deprivation in at least three dimensions of their wellbeing simultaneously. The disparities are stark. Children in rural areas are more than twice as likely to be multidimensionally poor compared with their urban counterparts (66% vs. 28% respectively).