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NAIROBI, KENYA: Kenya's economy created 840,000 new jobs in 2018. The informal sector, which accounted for 83.6 per cent of the total employment created 762,000 new jobs in the period under review.
The number of persons engaged, excluding those in rural small-scale agriculture and pastoralist activities rose by 5.0 per cent to 17.8 million persons in 2018. Employment in the public sector went up from 833,000 persons in 2017 to 842,000 persons in 2018.
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