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Kenya Public Money Tracker

Where your taxes go — updated nightly from official sources. Public money, traced to evidence.

Total public debt

KES12.52T

High risk of debt distress · IMF

Sum of 48 loan rows — pending bills excludedCBK publishes KES 12.30T for the same period — the gap is unreconciled.

Debt-to-GDP

69.3%

14.3 pts above the 55% anchor

IMF General Government Gross Debt, % of GDP (GGXWDG_NGDP) — vintage-consistentSource: IMF World Economic OutlookA broader measure than the total on the left, so the two do not divide into each other.

Risk Level

High Risk

LowModerateHigh

How to read the evidence

Follow one public shilling from approval to audit

Trace the money · verify the source

  1. 01 · Allocation

    Parliament approves and government allocates

  2. 02 · Borrowing

    Loans, bonds and other public liabilities

  3. 03 · Spending

    Funds move through ministries and counties

  4. 04 · Audit outcome

    The public record shows what was questioned

Kenya’s National Debt

2013–2025 · Source: Central Bank of Kenya & National Treasury

Total Public Debt
KES 12.52TCBK timeline: 5.8× since 2013
Debt-to-GDP
69.3%IMF general government basis
External Debt
KES 5.47T43.6% of total
Domestic Debt
KES 7.06T56.4% of total
Domestic Debt External Debt Debt-to-GDP %
KES 77.6 centsof every shilling of revenue goes to debt service
56.4% / 43.6%Domestic vs External debt split
Risk: HighIMF debt distress classification

Kenyan Government

FY 2026/27 Fiscal Snapshot

Fiscal Health: Under Strain
Budget
5.49T
FY 2026/27
Revenue
2.99T
Tax + non-tax
Borrowed
Debt Service
2.32T
77.6¢/KES
Debt-to-GDP69%
0%55% anchor100%

Above the 55%-of-GDP anchor on a nominal basis · PFM Act 2023 anchor: 55% of GDP measured in PRESENT-VALUE terms. The ratio shown is nominal, so it is not a like-for-like comparison. Former KES 10T ceiling repealed.

Baringo

County Government

Qualified
Financial Health59.8/100
BudgetKES 9.5B
Total Debt
Population667K
Fiscal Grade (est.)B
Budget Utilisation42.9%
Pending Bills
KES 346M
Budget per capitaKES 14,311

County budget figures are the Controller of Budget's own, read from the County Budget Implementation Review Report (CBIRR) — the total, development and recurrent aggregates. The per-sector split is modelled from the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) equitable-share formula, not read from the CBIRR. Pending bills are the audited per-county figures from Table 10 of the National Treasury's Budget Review and Outlook Paper. County debt is shown only where a source publishes it; most counties have none, and those show a dash rather than a figure. Audit findings are from the Office of the Auditor-General.

OAG Audit Findings
10
Warning

Lack of Risk Management Policy During the year under review, the County Assembly did not have fire policy, fraud policy and risk management policy in place and therefore had no approved processes and

Warning

Failure to Procure Using e-Procurement System The statement of receipts and payments reflects use of goods and services expenditure amounting to Kshs.277,389,736 which includes payments totalling to K

Warning

Construction of Buildings 345.1 Irregular Payment for Proposed Extension of County Assembly of Baringo Offices The statement of receipts and payments reflects acquisition of assets expenditure amounti

Warning

Non - Adherence to One-Third Basic Salary Rule Review of the July, 2020 to June, 2021 payrolls showed that 113 employees were earning net salaries which were less than one third of their basic salary

Warning

Non-Compliance on Ethnic Composition Analysis of the County Assembly’s payroll showed that 81% of the total 160 staff were from one dominant ethnic community contrary to Section 65(1)(e) of the County

Warning

Unreconciled Cash and Cash Equivalents The statement of financial assets and liabilities reflects bank balances of Kshs.236,102 as disclosed in Note 7 to the financial statements. However, review of t

Warning

Unexplained Variance in Accounts Receivable The statement of financial assets and liabilities reflects accounts receivables- outstanding imprests amounting to Kshs.292,500 as disclosed in Note 8 to th

Warning

Irregular Domestic Travel and Subsistence Allowances The statement of receipts and payments reflects use of goods and services expenditure amounting to Kshs.277,389,736 which includes domestic travel

Warning

Unexplained Variance for Compensation of Employees The statement of receipts and payments reflects compensation of employees’ expenditure amounting to Kshs.375,725,671 as disclosed in Note 2 to the fi

Warning

Irregular Payments to Society of Clerks-at-the-Table and County Assemblies Forum The statement of receipts and payments reflects use of goods and services expenditure amounting to Kshs.277,389,736 whi

Auditor General’s Report

National Government — FY2024/25

OAG Kenya
Audit opinion not yet published here

No Auditor-General opinion is shown because none currently traces to a page of a published report. This is not a finding that the national accounts are clean.

26 findings held back for lack of a traceable source document.

Ministries Audited
Amount Questioned
Critical Findings
8
Recurring Issues

KES 73.4B stated across 49 of 813 findings

The Auditor-General’s own questioned total is not stated in the machine-readable part of this report, so this is what the findings themselves add up to — not the report’s headline figure.

Audit Findings Overview

Top Ministries Flagged

State Department for Medical Services
105
State Department for Devolution
84
State Department for Public Health & Professional Standards
58
State Department for Technical, Vocational Education & Training
45
State Department for Basic Education
45
View All Findings

Where Your Taxes Go

Sector shares of the National-Government allocation (CoB NG-BIRR)

National-Government allocation (CoB NG-BIRR)
KES 1.41T

National-Government execution only (CoB NG-BIRR); excludes county equitable share transfers.

Budget Execution
99.2%
🎓Education
KES 646.2B46%
99.9% spent
📋Governance, Justice, Law and Order
KES 295.2B21%
98.9% spent
📋Public Administration and International Relations
KES 233.2B16.6%
98.1% spent
🏥Health
KES 90.4B6.4%
98.9% spent
📋Social Protection, Culture and Recreation
KES 59.1B4.2%
99.7% spent
📋General Economic and Commercial Affairs
KES 24.8B1.8%
98.7% spent
📋Agriculture, Rural and Urban Development
KES 21.8B1.5%
99.7% spent
📋Environment Protection, Water, and Natural Resources
KES 17.8B1.3%
98.4% spent
📋Energy, Infrastructure and ICT
KES 16.9B1.2%
98.5% spent

Percentages are shares of the National-Government allocation (CoB NG-BIRR) (KES 1.41T) — not of Kenya's gross budget or of total public spending, both of which are larger.

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National Government Loans

48 active loans — CBK Public Debt Statistical Bulletin — April 2025

Treasury
Outstanding Debt
KES 12.52T
Annual Service Cost
KES 1.02T
🏛️Bilateral
Bilateral
KES 166.4M0.00%KES 0
🏛️Bilateral
Bilateral
KES 189.9M0.00%KES 0
🏛️Bilateral
Bilateral
KES 309.0M0.00%KES 0
🏛️Bilateral
Bilateral
KES 343.5M0.00%KES 0
🇺🇸Bilateral
Bilateral
KES 697.0M0.00%KES 0
🏛️Multilateral )
Multilateral
KES 806.1M0.00%KES 0
🏛️Bilateral
Bilateral
KES 966.0M0.00%KES 0
🏛️Multilateral
Multilateral
KES 1.1B0.00%KES 0
🏛️Multilateral
Multilateral
KES 1.2B0.00%KES 0
🏛️Commercial banks
Commercial
KES 1.2B0.00%KES 0
🏛️Bilateral
Bilateral
KES 1.4B0.00%KES 0
🏛️Commercial banks
Commercial
KES 1.6B0.00%KES 0
🇫🇷Commercial banks
Commercial
KES 1.7B0.00%KES 0
🏛️Multilateral
Multilateral
KES 1.8B0.00%KES 0
See all 48 loans →

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