knbs data: The National Treasury ke.knbs.county-expenditure-by-county.annual annual

County Expenditure by County and Economic Type.

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What each of Kenya's 47 counties spent, by economic type, in 2024/25. 432 observations: eight expense types and their total for every county.

Counties spend 39.5 per cent of their budgets on staff nationally, and that single number hides two counties that are near mirror images of each other. Vihiga spends 60.2 per cent on salaries and 7.5 per cent on assets. Kilifi spends 21.9 per cent on salaries and 46.3 per cent on assets. Baringo, Nyeri and Taita/Taveta all spend around half their budgets on wages; Uasin Gishu and Siaya spend around 40 per cent on development.

Nairobi City is the largest spender at 40,714 million shillings and Vihiga the smallest at 1,720, a ratio of 24 to 1.

One year only. The source publishes this cross-section for the current year alone; ke.knbs.county-expenditure-economic.annual carries the same classification for seven years without the county breakdown, and the two agree exactly on every expense type in 2024/25.

County names and expense types are published as their sibling datasets publish them, so the cross-section joins to the seven-year series and to ke.knbs.population.irregular.

One figure is negative. Baringo's other expense for 2024/25 is -1 million shillings, an accounting reversal rather than an error: KNBS prints it, and it is included in Baringo's own printed total. It is published as printed.

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STAFF AGAINST ASSETS

Vihiga spends 60 per cent of its budget on salaries and 7 per cent on assets; Kilifi spends 22 per cent on salaries and 46 on assets.

County spending on staff against spending on assets · share of each county's budget · 2024/25

SOURCE: The National Treasury · via Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · County Expenditure by County and Economic Type (annual) · Updated 2026-08-19
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imibare contributors. (2026). County Expenditure by County and Economic Type [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-19. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.county-expenditure-by-county.annual