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County Governments' Revenue by Source.

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What each of Kenya's 47 county governments was given and what it raised itself, for two fiscal years. 490 observations across four revenue sources and their total.

The first dataset in this catalogue to reach below Kenya's national government. Devolution moved roughly a third of public spending to the counties in 2013, and this is where the money comes from: the equitable share is the constitutional transfer, conditional and unconditional grants are additional transfers, and own source revenue is what a county raises through its own taxes, fees and charges.

Counties fund 16.4 per cent of their revenue themselves, and that average hides a range of nearly forty to one. Nairobi City raises 48.4 per cent of its own budget and Mombasa 37.2, while Tana River raises 1.3 per cent, Wajir 1.7 and Turkana 2.2.

Total county revenue was 521,785 million shillings in 2024/25 against 504,426 in 2023/24. Nairobi City is the largest at 41,408 million and Lamu the smallest at 4,161.

County names are published as ke.knbs.population.irregular publishes them, so revenue per head is a join rather than a reconciliation exercise. KNBS spells four of them differently between tables of this same chapter.

One row is not a county. FLLoCA is the Financing Locally-Led Climate Action programme, a World Bank and KfW facility allocated to counties collectively, and it carries row_level "programme" so it can be included in a national total and excluded from a per-county one.

Unconditional grants are court fines and reach almost no county, so most of that column is null rather than zero: the source publishes no figure rather than publishing a zero.

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WHO FUNDS THEMSELVES

Nairobi City raises half its own budget from local taxes and fees; Tana River raises one fiftieth of its.

Own source revenue as a share of total county revenue · 47 counties · 2024/25

SOURCE: Office of the Controller of Budget · via Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · County Governments' Revenue by Source (annual) · Updated 2026-08-19

#	fiscal_year	period_start	county	row_level	revenue_source	source_level	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	-
county	string	County name as ke.knbs.population.irregular publishes it, so the two join; or FLLoCA for the programme row, or Total.	-
row_level	string	county, programme or total. Summing across levels double counts: filter to county first.	-
revenue_source	string	Equitable Share Grant, Conditional Grant, Unconditional Grant, Annual Own Source Revenue, or Total Revenue	-
source_level	string	component or total. The four sources sum to Total Revenue: filter to component to avoid double counting.	-
status	string	final or provisional	-
value	float64	Revenue in millions of shillings, null where the source prints no figure	-
unit	string	ksh_million	-

CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). County Governments' Revenue by Source [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-19. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.county-revenue.annual