Kenya public finance data

Name: Kenya public finance data
Creator: PollsAfrica

National government revenue, spending and public debt, and what each of the 47 county governments plans to spend, spends and collects itself, from Controller of Budget and National Treasury documents. Kenya's fiscal year runs from July to June, so 2024/25 means July 2024 to June 2025. Amounts are in Kenya shillings. Last updated 28 October 2026 and extended as more documents are checked.

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Revenue, spending and public debt, year by year

Press play to step through the fiscal years. Choose government revenue, government spending or public debt. Years marked provisional or budget are not final outturn. Amounts are nominal shillings, not adjusted for inflation or the exchange rate.

Top 10 lists

Lists built from the county budget implementation reports of the Controller of Budget and the county allocation figures. Each states its measure and year in the title and ranks by the number shown, nothing else. Switch between them below.

Counties, year by year

Each row is a county and each column a fiscal year. Click or tap a cell to see what that county planned, spent and collected, and the report behind it.

approved budget heldapproved budget and actual spending heldnot held or not yet checked

Download the data

Free to download, with the source named in every row. Read the notes first, and cite us as shown under How we publish.

county_budgets_by_year.csv · approved budget, recorded spending, own-source revenue and more, 47 counties, 2016/17 to 2025/26
national_government_annual.csv · central government revenue and spending by fiscal year
public_debt_june.csv · public debt at the end of June, external and domestic
county_equitable_share.csv · equitable share disbursed to each county
county_population_2019.csv · 2019 census population by county
gross_county_product.csv · gross county product by county, 2013 to 2017 and 2020 to 2024 (2024 provisional)
README.txt · sources, notes and how to cite

How we publish

How to cite this page
PollsAfrica, Kenya public finance data, pollsafrica.com/data/kenya-public-finance. Original source: the Controller of Budget or National Treasury document named beside each figure.

What the figures are
Amounts are published as printed, in nominal shillings. "Approved" and "budget" mean planned amounts. "Actual" means spending recorded in the Controller of Budget's county report. We rank by the number shown and use no best or worst language.

How we check them
Each county table must add up: recurrent plus development equals the total, and the county rows add up to the printed national total. A figure that fails a check is not shown. Where two government documents disagree, we say so beside the figure or leave it out.

Gaps we know about
Years before 2016/17 are not yet shown for counties. National figures for 2016/17 and the June 2022 debt figure are held out because the documents disagree. VAT and income tax are held out because two documents print them in opposite columns. Pending bills and equitable share are shown only where checked.

Sources and reuse
Every figure names its source document. We publish figures and link to the original, and we do not host copies of the source PDFs.

Corrections
Found an error, or know of a document we are missing? Tell us. We check it and log a dated correction.

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