New Vehicle Registrations in Kenya, 2015–2024

New motor-vehicle and motorcycle registrations; thousand registrations, 2015–2024.

What the Data Shows

Kenya’s annual new motor-vehicle and motorcycle registrations are compared from 2015 to 2024. Values are counts of registrations rather than the total vehicle stock, and 2024 is provisional. Registrations fell from 247,181 in 2015 to 166,514 in 2024, a decline of 80,667. The series peaked at 399,052 in 2021 before falling in each of the next three years.

Data table

2015 247.2
2016 213.7
2018 297.3
2019 327.2
2020 346.7
2021 399.1
2023 195.7
2024 166.5

Sources

Source 1: Economic Survey 2020

Publisher: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

Dataset/table: Newly registered motor vehicles and motorcycles

Units: registrations

Date checked: 2026-07-17

Evidence: Provides Kenya’s 2015–2019 new vehicle registrations.

Source 2: Economic Survey 2025

Publisher: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

Dataset/table: Newly registered motor vehicles and motorcycles

Units: registrations

Date checked: 2026-07-17

Evidence: Provides Kenya’s 2020–2024 new vehicle registrations.

Data notes & caveats

Annual registrations can move differently from the total number of vehicles already in use. The 2024 count is provisional.

Methodology

The figures count motor vehicles and motorcycles newly registered during each year; they are not a cumulative vehicle stock.

Source consistency notes

All values use the same Kenya National Bureau of Statistics first-registration concept and annual count basis.

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