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National Government Operations.

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Kenya's national government account in full, for the seven fiscal years to 2024/25: what the government took in, what it spent, the gap between them, and how the gap was met. 98 observations across fourteen rows, in the concepts of the IMF's Government Finance Statistics.

The government spent KSh 3.83 trillion in 2024/25 against revenue of KSh 3.12 trillion, borrowing KSh 862.7 billion to close the difference. That gap has been narrowing: it was 48.9 per cent of revenue in 2020/21 and 27.7 per cent in 2024/25, because revenue grew faster than spending over the six years, 77.8 per cent against 71.9.

Who lends the money has swung further than how much is borrowed. Foreign lenders supplied 57.5 per cent of new borrowing in 2018/19, fell to 19.1 per cent by 2021/22 as Kenya lost access to international markets, and returned to 46.6 per cent in 2024/25.

The rows are three kinds of thing and the dataset says which in section. operations is the account itself, financing is how the deficit was met, and memorandum is public debt redemption, which the source prints below the account rather than inside it. Summing across sections is meaningless. Within a section, item_level separates a headline from its components.

Three rows are called Domestic: financial assets acquired at home, liabilities incurred at home, and debt redeemed at home. Use item_path, which names the headline each sits under, rather than item alone.

Two figures the source publishes do not add up to the rows it prints beneath them, both in 2023/24, and they are published here exactly as printed rather than corrected. Net acquisition of financial assets is given as KSh 10.1 billion against a single component of KSh 27.2 billion, and net incurrence of liabilities as KSh 819.1 billion against components summing to KSh 808.2 billion. The previous edition of the same table has both right, so this is a revision KNBS made to the components without carrying it into the totals.

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

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PUBLIC FINANCE

Kenya's budget gap has narrowed from 49 per cent of revenue to 28 in four years, because revenue grew faster than spending.

Revenue against total outlays · KSh trillion · FY 2018/19 to 2024/25

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · National Government Operations (annual) · Updated 2026-08-17

#	fiscal_year	fiscal_year_start	section	item_code	item	item_path	item_level	status	value	unit
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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
fiscal_year	string	Kenyan fiscal year in "YYYY/YY" format (e.g. "2024/25")	-
fiscal_year_start	date	First day of the fiscal year (July 1)	-
section	string	operations (the account itself), financing (how the deficit was met) or memorandum (debt redemption, printed below the account and not part of it)	-
item_code	string	The item number the source prints, e.g. "6" or "6.1". Empty for FINANCING, which the source numbers only in its caption.	-
item	string	Row name as printed in the source	-
item_path	string	The row's name preceded by the headline it sits under, e.g. "Net Incurrence of liabilities > Domestic". Unique within a fiscal year, which item alone is not.	-
item_level	string	headline, or component of the headline above it	-
status	string	final, revised or provisional, as the source marks the year	-
value	float64	Amount, in the unit named alongside. Negative for a deficit.	-
unit	string	ksh_million	-

CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). National Government Operations [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-17. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.government-operations.annual