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

County Governments Expenditure by Economic Classification.

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What Kenya's county governments spent money on, by economic type, for the seven fiscal years to 2024/25. 203 observations across 28 items in three groups.

County spending grew 1.40 times over the period, from 393,919 million shillings to 551,383.

Counties spend roughly two shillings on staff for every one on assets. The wage bill was 217,858 million in 2024/25, 39.5 per cent of all county spending, and has not fallen below 39.5 per cent in seven years, peaking at 42.2 in 2022/23. Acquisition of non-financial assets, which is the development budget, was 22.4 per cent, down from 24.6 per cent in 2018/19 and as low as 17.9 in 2022/23.

The rows are three levels and the dataset says which in item_level. Three group rows carry their own children: Compensation of Employees over salaries, allowances and social contributions; Use of goods and services over thirteen operating items; and Acquisition of Non-financial Assets over four. Five more rows are unindented with no children at all, including Grants, which at 89,661 million in 2024/25 is larger than every group but two.

Filter to component to get rows that sum to the total exactly once. Summing groups as well double counts, and the result still looks plausible: it is about 1.7 times the printed total rather than obviously wrong.

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The wage bill has not fallen below 39.5 per cent of what Kenya's counties spend in seven years, while the development budget fell from 25 per cent to 18 and back.

County spending by economic type · KSh million · fiscal years 2018/19 to 2024/25

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