{"id":196926,"date":"2025-04-27T23:50:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T21:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-set-to-overtake-ethiopia-as-east-africas-largest-economy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T23:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T21:50:28","slug":"kenya-set-to-overtake-ethiopia-as-east-africas-largest-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-set-to-overtake-ethiopia-as-east-africas-largest-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Set to Overtake Ethiopia As East Africa&#8217;s Largest Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kenya is projected to surpass Ethiopia as East Africa&#8217;s largest economy in 2025, according to new data from the International Monetary Fund<\/li>\n<li>The IMF forecasts Kenya&#8217;s GDP will reach $132 billion next year, ahead of Ethiopia&#8217;s estimated $117 billion<\/li>\n<li>The shift follows Ethiopia&#8217;s sharp currency devaluation in July 2024, part of reforms to secure a $3.4 billion IMF program and unlock $16.6 billion in additional World Bank support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Kenya is projected to surpass Ethiopia as East Africa&#8217;s largest&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504270154.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR Kenya is projected to surpass Ethiopia as East Africa&#8217;s largest economy in 2025, according to new data from the International Monetary Fund The IMF forecasts Kenya&#8217;s GDP will reach $132 billion next year, ahead of Ethiopia&#8217;s estimated $117 billion The shift follows Ethiopia&#8217;s sharp currency devaluation in July 2024, part of reforms to secure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":196927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6287,6719,5762,4716,4688,430,10885,257,23436,7106,254],"class_list":["post-196926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-east","tag-economy","tag-ethiopia","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-largest","tag-news","tag-overtake","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}