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Kenya: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1982–2025 · 44 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
24.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.8 pointsfrom 23.2%
Average, 2016–2025
24.1%10 years
Record high and low
25.3% (2016)low 13.7% (1999)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203122.9Forecast
203022.8Forecast
202922.7Forecast
202822.7Forecast
202722.9Forecast
202623.7Forecast
202524.0
202423.2
202322.6
202223.1
202124.0
202024.8
201924.4
201824.5
201725.2
201625.3

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1982–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1982–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2014–2023
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Kenya documentation (PDF)

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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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