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National Government Expenditure Cross-Classified by Function and Economic Type.

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What Kenya's national government spent on each function of government, and on what within it, for fiscal year 2024/25. 396 observations: twelve functions and twenty of their sub-functions, plus the total, against twelve economic classes.

Kenya's national government employs the people who police and teach, and delivers almost everything else by handing money to somebody else. Salaries are 62.3 per cent of what it spends on public order and safety and 56.8 per cent of what it spends on education. They are 10.5 per cent of health, 5.3 per cent of defence and 2.5 per cent of economic affairs, all of which run mostly on grants: 69.6, 94.6 and 87.5 per cent respectively. Health is the sharpest of those, because health is devolved to the 47 county governments.

Neither of the two classifications alone can show this. It is in the cell where they cross, which is what this table is.

One fiscal year. The source publishes this matrix for the newest year only, and each edition adds one. The 2023/24 edition is deliberately not stitched in: its Total Expenditure column is printed one row out of place, so that each function's total is attributed to the function below it, and its figures are provisional besides, revised by 8.3 per cent at the total by the following edition. A two-year series built from the two would show a year-over-year change that is mostly revision.

Summing this whole table counts the same shilling several times over. function_level says which rows are the twelve additive functions, which are sub-functions sitting inside three of them, and which is the total. economic_level says which of the twelve columns are additive classes and which three are derived: total_expense, net acquisition of non-financial assets, and total_expenditure, which is the sum of the other two.

One figure does not add up and it is published as printed. Sheet (b) gives Education a disposal of non-financial assets of +51,069.48 million, a positive disposal where every other function has a negative one, while Education's own seven sub-functions sum to -43,055.00. The Education row itself is consistent with the rest of the chapter; its sub-functions are what disagree, by 94,124.48 in each of the three columns that disposal feeds.

This table's Social Benefits column totals 186,792.56 where Table 5.4 prints 186,797.86 for the same year, a difference of 5.30. Every other column agrees with Table 5.4 to within 0.02, and that one column is nearly the whole of the 5.32 by which this table's total expense falls short of Table 5.4's.

2024/25 is provisional in the source.

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EMPLOY OR HAND ON

Kenya's national government pays the people who police and teach; nearly everything else it does, it does by handing the money to somebody else.

Salaries and grants as a share of each function's expense · FY 2024/25

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · National Government Expenditure Cross-Classified by Function and Economic Type (annual) · Updated 2026-08-21

#	fiscal_year	period_start	function	function_level	parent_function	economic_class	economic_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	-
function	string	Function of government, as sheet (a) prints it. The two sheets disagree about two of these names, and sheet (a)'s are published.	-
function_level	string	function (the twelve that sum to the total), sub_function (a component of one of three functions, so not additive with them), or aggregate for TOTAL OUTLAYS	-
parent_function	string	The function a sub_function sits inside, or null for the twelve functions and the total	-
economic_class	string	Economic class of the spending. Twelve columns across two sheets.	-
economic_level	string	class for the nine additive columns, aggregate for total_expense, net_acquisition_of_non_financial_assets and total_expenditure	-
status	string	provisional, as the source marks this whole table	-
value	float64	Spending in millions of shillings. Disposals are negative, except Education's, which the source prints positive.	-
unit	string	ksh_million	-

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imibare contributors. (2026). National Government Expenditure Cross-Classified by Function and Economic Type [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-21. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.expenditure-cross-classification.annual