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County Governments Expenditure by Function.

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What Kenya's county governments spend money on, by purpose, for the seven fiscal years to 2024/25. 91 observations across the COFOG classification: health, education, roads, water and the rest.

The same money as ke.knbs.county-expenditure-economic.annual, classified by what it was for rather than by what it was spent on. The two totals agree in six of seven years.

General public services take the largest share of county spending, 178,600 million shillings in 2024/25, ahead of health at 123,710 and economic affairs at 106,160. Health has grown 34 per cent since 2018/19 and education 44 per cent. Social protection is the smallest at 2,124 million, four tenths of one per cent of all county spending.

**The two classifications disagree by 11,612.93 million shillings in 2018/19, and this dataset carries both figures rather than resolving them.** Table 5.16 totals 405,532 million where Table 5.15 totals 393,919, a difference of 2.9 per cent. Both are read straight from the printed Total rows and the other six years agree to within a hundredth, so it is KNBS's own inconsistency. Nothing in either table gives a basis for preferring one.

Economic affairs is the only group row, over general economic affairs, agriculture, transport and other. Filter to component to get rows that sum to the total exactly once.

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WHAT COUNTIES SPEND FOR

Kenyan counties have nearly tripled what they spend on recreation and culture since 2018/19, while spending on social protection has fallen.

County spending by function, indexed to 2018/19 · fiscal years 2018/19 to 2024/25

SOURCE: The National Treasury · via Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · County Governments Expenditure by Function (annual) · Updated 2026-08-19

#	fiscal_year	period_start	function	function_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	-
function	string	COFOG function of government, as the source prints it	-
function_level	string	group, component or total. Components sum to the total; Economic Affairs is the sum of its own four children. Summing across levels double counts.	-
parent	string	Economic Affairs for its four children, null for everything else	-
status	string	final, revised or provisional	-
value	float64	Spending in millions of shillings	-
unit	string	ksh_million	-

CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). County Governments Expenditure by Function [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-19. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.county-expenditure-function.annual