Quarterly Balance of Payments – First Quarter 2026
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Quarterly BOP Reports
June
2026
Overview
The current account balance widened from a deficit of KSh 70.0 billion in the first quarter of 2025 to a deficit of KSh 120.9 billion in the first quarter of 2026 as highlighted in Table 1. This partly resulted from a 4.5 per cent increase in imports of goods, coupled with a 34.8 per cent increase in service expenditures in the first quarter of 2026. Receipts from exports of merchandise goods registered a 6.2 per cent decline to KSh 385.6 billion during the same period.