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Kenya: A market dominated by mobile money

In Kenya, mobile money account penetration is around 60%

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Market Overview

Offering alternative payment methods like mobile money is key to reaching this market

Population: 55.6M *

With a smartphone penetration of 77% and a banked population of 93.3%

* Source: Worldometers 2023.
eCommerce: 1.7B *

Kenya's eCommerce market shows a 21% annual growth rate *

* Source: eCommerceDB, 2023 & Datareportal, 2022
eShoppers: 23.35M *

eCommerce users are expected to hit 63.9% of the population by 2027 *

* Source: Datareportal, 2022 & Statista, 2022
Internet users: 32.7% *

Mobile money account penetration is 60% *

* Source: Datareportal, beginning of 2023.

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60% Mobile Money
17% Debit cards
15% Cash
5% Other
3% Credit Card

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- airtel
- Mpesa

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