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National Government Total Outlays by Function and Economic Type.

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Everything Kenya's national government spent, classified two ways at once, for the seven fiscal years to 2024/25. 154 observations: twelve functions of government and eight economic types across seven years, each block with its own printed total, and the two totals are the same number.

Servicing debt overtook educating people in 2020/21 and has not given the place back. In 2018/19 education was the largest function at KSh 455.1 billion, with public debt transactions third at 315.6 billion behind economic affairs. In 2024/25 debt is KSh 995.8 billion against education's 703.4 billion, and it has gone from 13.1 per cent of all outlays to 25.0.

Debt is the only function that grew far faster than the budget: 3.15 times its 2018/19 level against 1.65 for outlays as a whole. Housing and community amenities did not grow at all, ending at 0.99 times where it started, and economic affairs and transfers to other levels of government both grew at about a fifth.

This is the only place in the catalogue where function and economic type sit on the same basis, and it reaches back two years further than ke.knbs.expenditure-by-function.annual, which begins in 2020/21. Those two years are what show the crossover rather than just the outcome.

basis says which classification a row belongs to, and the two are not additive with each other: they are the same spending counted twice. Sum within one basis, never across both.

Public debt transactions and interest are the same spending seen from the two sides, and the source prints them equal to the cent in six of the seven years. In 2018/19 the functional block prints KSh 315,638.04 million and the economic block 375,723.16, a gap of 60,085.12, while both blocks still reach the same total. Nothing in the table says what absorbs it, so the gap is published as printed and checked at its measured size.

Fiscal years run 1 July to 30 June. 2024/25 is provisional in the source.

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Servicing debt overtook educating people as Kenya's largest function of government in 2020/21, and has not given the place back.

Public debt transactions against education · KSh million · fiscal years 2018/19 to 2024/25

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

#	fiscal_year	period_start	basis	item	item_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	-
basis	string	function or economic. The two classify the same spending, so summing across both counts every shilling twice.	-
item	string	Function of government, or economic type, as the source prints it	-
item_level	string	component or total. Components sum to the total of their own basis. There is no parent column: this table prints no groups within either block, so it would be null in every row.	-
status	string	final, revised or provisional	-
value	float64	Outlays in millions of shillings	-
unit	string	ksh_million	-

CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). National Government Total Outlays by Function and Economic Type [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-21. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.government-outlays.annual