Kenya: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Name: Kenya: Central government deficit (% of GDP)
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Percent of GDP · 1955–2025 · 71 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025: −5.94%percent of GDP
Change on 2024: −0.3 pointsfrom −5.62%
Average, 2016–2025: −6.81%10 years
Record high and low: 0.814% (2000)low −11.5% (1993)

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Percent of GDP

Year	Value
2025	-5.94
2024	-5.62
2023	-4.46
2022	-7.72
2021	-8.59
2020	-5.60
2019	-3.95
2018	-8.43
2017	-10.8
2016	-7.03

Sources

Mitchell1955–2010
African Development Bank1980–2025
IMF Government Finance Statistics2014–2023
World Development Indicators2014–2023

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Kenya documentation (PDF)

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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