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National Government Capital Expenditure.

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SOURCE www.knbs.or.ke

What Kenya's national government's capital account buys and pays off, for the seven fiscal years to 2024/25. 126 observations: 18 rows across seven years, covering the acquisition and disposal of non-financial assets, the acquisition of financial assets, and principal repayments of debt.

Kenya now repays far more debt principal than it spends on new assets. In 2018/19 it bought KSh 233.3 billion of non-financial assets and repaid KSh 344.3 billion of principal, a ratio of 1.5. In 2022/23 it bought KSh 53.4 billion and repaid KSh 512.0 billion, a ratio of 9.6. Asset purchases have since recovered to KSh 151.1 billion, still a third below where they started seven years earlier.

Construction and works is most of the asset spending and most of its swing, running between 42.6 and 79.3 per cent of the total.

The rows are four kinds of thing and the dataset says which in item_level. component rows are leaves. group rows are the sum of the components beneath them. block_total rows are the printed Total of the block named in parent. aggregate marks the one row the source derives rather than adds up: Total Non-financial Assets (Net) is the acquisition Total plus the disposals row, and it sits at the top level looking exactly like a third figure of the same standing. Summing it with the two rows it comes from counts the capital account twice.

Disposals are printed as negative numbers, so the net figure is acquisitions plus disposals rather than minus. The same disposals row appears in ke.knbs.capital-revenue.annual, and the two are checked against each other on every run.

Two rows are printed under an Inventories heading that carries no figure of its own; their names carry that heading so nothing is lost and the block still adds up in one step.

Fiscal years run 1 July to 30 June. 2024/25 is provisional and 2023/24 revised in the source.

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BUILDING AGAINST REPAYING

In 2022/23 Kenya repaid nearly ten shillings of debt principal for every shilling it spent on new assets.

Non-financial assets acquired against principal repaid · KSh million · fiscal years 2018/19 to 2024/25

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · National Government Capital Expenditure (annual) · Updated 2026-08-21

#	fiscal_year	period_start	item	item_level	parent	status	value	unit
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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
fiscal_year	string	Kenyan fiscal year, e.g. 2024/25, opening on 1 July	-
period_start	date	1 July of the fiscal year's first calendar year	-
item	string	Capital item, as the source prints it. The two inventory rows carry the heading they are printed under, which has no figure of its own.	-
item_level	string	component, group, block_total or aggregate. Summing across levels double counts; see source_description for what each one means.	-
parent	string	The block or group this row sits inside, or null for the rows at the top level. A block heading carries no figure of its own, so it appears here and not as a row.	-
status	string	final, revised or provisional	-
value	float64	Capital spending in millions of shillings. Disposals are negative throughout, because a disposal offsets the spending it sits beside.	-
unit	string	ksh_million	-

CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). National Government Capital Expenditure [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-21. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.capital-expenditure.annual