Overview

Kenya scores 0.95 and falls two places to rank 24th among the resource and efficiency-driven¹ economies on the Connectivity Scorecard 2011 index.

With this performance, Kenya lies at the bottom of the table along with the five poorest performers, trailing India, Nigeria and Pakistan, but slightly ahead of Bangladesh. Kenya’s low score of 0.95 typifies the problem that many African and South Asian countries face. Despite adequate mobile penetration and few examples of ICT innovation, these countries have daunting development challenges in the area of human capital. With a Human Development index² ranking of 128, Kenya fares well below the worldwide average.

¹ As defined by The World Economic Forum www.weforum.org
² www.hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/

Kenya Connectivity Performance by Scorecard Component