The majority of Kenya-born people who migrated to the UK are of South Asian extraction.

[4] The most recent growth may now be coming from ethnically African Kenyans, mirroring wider trends across the continent of economic migration to the richer industrialised nations.

[4] There are also a small number of Kenyan-born people who are the children of British civil servants based there before the end of the Empire.

[6] The 2011 census recorded 135,966 Kenyan-born people resident in England, 1,526 in Wales,[7] 2,743 in Scotland[8] and 301 in Northern Ireland,[9] making a UK total of 140,536.

The equivalent UK figure in 2019 has been estimated at 121,000 by the Office for National Statistics.