What's the Real % of the Middle Class in Kenya?

[sema]

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I keep hearing people referring to this middle class.  I even saw someone say that it's 60% of the population, but what is the real percentage and how is middle class defined in Kenya? I suggested that the real middle class was maybe about 5% of the population, but someone said that was too low and it was probably closer to 20%.

Does anyone have the real figures or the real definition of what qualifies as middle class?

[RV Pundit]

Middle class in kenya term is anyone who earn 30K hivi - they are the majority.
But real middle class - or upper middle class (in WB/IMF) term is someone who make 4000usd per person year in kenya.
For a family of 2 kids - that is about 16,000usd.
Now how many kenyans are proper middle class - you have to find income/expenditure data
And then take our those who make 4,000usd per capita.

Kenya is now lower middle class - 2,000usd per capita.

[sema]

Middle class in kenya term is anyone who earn 30K hivi - they are the majority.

So, that's about $230 dollars a month and these people mainly do what for a living and would live where? In Nairobi, what places and if some are in the village, what parts of Kenya (must be only in the farming zones)

[gout]

These are working-class living from salary to salary for those employed and hasoras evading taxes for rent.

Middle class in kenya term is anyone who earn 30K hivi - they are the majority.
But real middle class - or upper middle class (in WB/IMF) term is someone who make 4000usd per person year in kenya.
For a family of 2 kids - that is about 16,000usd.
Now how many kenyans are proper middle class - you have to find income/expenditure data
And then take our those who make 4,000usd per capita.

Kenya is now lower middle class - 2,000usd per capita.

[RV Heavy Hitter!]

I keep hearing people referring to this middle class.  I even saw someone say that it's 60% of the population, but what is the real percentage and how is middle class defined in Kenya? I suggested that the real middle class was maybe about 5% of the population, but someone said that was too low and it was probably closer to 20%.

Does anyone have the real figures or the real definition of what qualifies as middle class?

If you are looking at in US standards, they are about 3-5% of Kenya. Mpigs, judges, CS, governors, senators, MCAs, senior government officials, businessmen, etc. are technically middle class, but in Kenya, I think anyone with 25-40K salary or a famer/hustler with 'nyumba ya cable, T, L and semi-finished house is middle class