Sub-Saharan Africa · Partial data: missing GF10, GF0107
Data checked 28 Oct 2026 · next scheduled check 1 Jan 2027 · UN World Population Prospects (via World Bank) released 1 Jul 2026 · World Bank WDI released 8 Oct 2026
Total spending · 2024
23.3%
+5.9 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.04%
-0.6 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
4.02%
-1.3 pts since 1999
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
71.3%
of GDP · +33 pts since 1998
Population · 2025
57.5m
116.3% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Kenya yet.
Not available: general-government welfare (COFOG 10) and COFOG debt transactions (01.7). No matching official observation was found in the sources checked; narrower-sector or differently defined figures are not substituted.
Healthcare rose from 1.0% to 2.0% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence fell from 1.6% to 1.1% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Education rose from 5.3% to 7.3% of GDP between 1999 and 2005, then fell to 4.0% by 2024.
Total spending fell from 17.3% to 13.7% of GDP between 1995 and 1999, then rose to 23.3% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 38.5% to 34.2% of GDP between 1998 and 2007, then rose to 71.3% by 2025.
Population grew from 26.6 million in 1995 to 57.5 million in 2025; the UN projects 83.6 million by 2050.