Verified Datasets in Kenya
4 verified datasets for building in Kenya. Every one has had its documentation, licensing and live status checked, not just listed. Last verified 25 Aug 2026.
KeNADA — Kenya National Data Archive (KNBS)
Kenya's official microdata catalog — census, survey and administrative-record datasets across economic, social and demographic topics, maintained by the national statistics agency.
Scout-verified 2026-08-14: curl 200 on NADA portal and knbs.or.ke/knbs-data/, WebSearch independently describes the same portal and its access-policy requirement. See docs/scout/kenya-candidates.md.
Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD)
Official Common Operational Dataset administrative boundaries for Kenya, from national down through counties, sub-counties and wards. Provided on HDX as Shapefile and other GIS formats, maintained by OCHA together with the government. Free download and openly licensed.
Kenya — Subnational Population Statistics (HDX/UNFPA)
County/sub-county population statistics for Kenya, a Common Operational Dataset (COD) companion to the already-listed OCHA admin-boundaries dataset — actual population counts, not just boundaries.
Scout-verified 2026-08-14: curl 200 on dataset page, HDX CKAN API returns same dataset with license/org metadata, metadata_modified 2026-05-07 confirms active maintenance. See docs/scout/kenya-candidates.md.
Kencorpus Kenyan Language Corpus
Text and speech corpus for three Kenyan languages, Swahili, Dholuo and Luhya, containing 4,442 texts (5.6 million words) and 1,152 speech files (177 hours). It also ships derived NLP sets: POS-tagged Dholuo/Luhya, 7,537 Swahili question-answer pairs and 13,400 translated sentences. Downloadable from Harvard Dataverse; released 2022.