A new Statista report reveals that Kenya's Gen Z is part of a global wave of youth-led protests, making Kenya one of 10 countries to experience large-scale demonstrations in 2024 and 2025. Young people worldwide are protesting corruption, economic exclusion, and political mismanagement, leveraging social media to amplify their voices and organize.

• The report, based on research by Visions of Humanity, identifies Kenya alongside Bangladesh, Nepal, Morocco, Madagascar, Peru, the Philippines, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and Serbia.
• In Madagascar, protests over water and electricity failures led to 22 deaths and more than 100 injuries, resulting in President Andry Rajoelina dissolving his government.
• Bangladesh saw youth mobilization against a job quota system lead to the resignation and flight of long-time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, with estimates of more than a thousand deaths during the unrest.
• Nepali youth leveraged Discord to organize and plan a replacement government after protests over elite ostentation led to more than 70 deaths and forced the prime minister's resignation.
• Kenyan Gen Z has consistently organized online and offline against corporate irresponsibility, internet restrictions, and the government's use of surveillance tools, as highlighted in the Londa Report 2025.