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National Government Expenditure by Function.

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What Kenya's national government spent, by function of government, for the five fiscal years to 2024/25. 435 observations: 29 rows across five years, each split into recurrent spending, development spending and their total.

The single largest thing the government spends money on is its own debt. Public debt transactions took KSh 995.8 billion in 2024/25, a quarter of all outlays and more than education, which is the next largest at KSh 703.4 billion.

The rows are three kinds of thing and the dataset says which in function_level. Twelve are functions, which sum to the published total. Sixteen are sub-functions sitting inside Economic affairs, Health or Education, so summing the whole column overstates spending by about a fifth. One is the total itself.

The source marks that hierarchy inconsistently: the previous edition of this table indents all sixteen components, this one indents seven and leaves the other nine flush left, reading exactly like top-level functions. So the levels are worked out from the arithmetic instead: a row is a parent if the rows below it add up to it in every fiscal year and spending column at once. Two independent sums then hold on every cell and are asserted on every run: recurrent plus development is the published total, and the twelve functions add up to TOTAL OUTLAYS.

Fiscal years run 1 July to 30 June, as Rwanda's do. 2024/25 is provisional in the source.

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Kenya's national government spends more on servicing its debt than on anything else, including education: a quarter of all outlays in 2024/25.

National government expenditure by function · KSh billion · fiscal years 2020/21 and 2024/25

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · National Government Expenditure by Function (annual) · Updated 2026-08-16
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imibare contributors. (2026). National Government Expenditure by Function [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-16. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.expenditure-by-function.annual