Overall, the economy diversified little and its level of export sophistication has not increased followed by minerals (9.4) and textiles (9). Kenya is a well-diversified economy with a high number of competitively exported products across different industries. However, for its level of economic diversification, its exports are not particularly unique,14 and it has introduced few new products that add additional value.15 The fact that Kenya's main export products are produced by many other countries reduces firms' profit margins, making it harder for them to compete. For example, Kenya exports has consequently changed little during the last 10 years. As a consequence, Kenya has not improved in the economic complexity index (ECl) ranking during this period, currently ranked 87 14 This means that Kenya's exports are relatively ubiquitous and are exported by many other countries, which is a component of the degree of sophistication (economic complexity) of its exports. 15 Kenya ranks 35th out of 133 countries in terms of the diversity of its exports. The country has added 16 products to its export basket, ) () l s u 16 The economic complexity index is measure of the diversification and sophistication of a country's export basket, approximating the
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