Kenya | General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$)
General government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption) includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees). It also includes most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. Data are in constant 2015 prices, expressed in U.S. dollars. Development relevance: An economy's growth is measured by the change in the volume of its output or in the real incomes of its residents. The 2008 United Nations System of National Accounts (2008 SNA) offers three plausible indicators for calculating growth: the volume of gross domestic product (GDP), real gross domestic income, and real gross national income. The volume of GDP is the sum of value added, measured at constant prices, by households, government, and industries operating in the economy. GDP accounts for all domestic production, regardless of whether the income accrues to domestic or foreign institutions. Limitations and exceptions: Because policymakers have tended to focus on fostering the growth of output, and because data on production are easier to collect than data on spending, many countries generate their primary estimate of GDP using the production approach. Moreover, many countries do not estimate all the components of national expenditures but instead derive some of the main aggregates indirectly using GDP (based on the production approach) as the control total. Measures of growth in consumption and capital formation are subject to two kinds of inaccuracy. The first stems from the difficulty of measuring expenditures at current price levels. The second arises in deflating current price data to measure volume growth, where results depend on the relevance and reliability of the price indexes and weights used. Measuring price changes is more difficult for investment goods than for consumption goods because of the one-time nature of many investments and because the rate of technological progress in capital goods makes capturing change in quality difficult. (An example is computers - prices have fallen as quality has improved.) To obtain government consumption in constant prices, countries may deflate current values by applying a wage (price) index or extrapolate from the change in government employment. Neither technique captures improvements in productivity or changes in the quality of government services. Statistical concept and methodology: Gross domestic product (GDP) from the expenditure side is made up of household final consumption expenditure, general government final consumption expenditure, gross capital formation (private and public investment in fixed assets, changes in inventories, and net acquisitions of valuables), and net exports (exports minus imports) of goods and services. Such expenditures are recorded in purchaser prices and include net taxes on products.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Kenya
Records
63
Source
Kenya | General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$)
353258579.52022 1960
377224173.47028 1961
387533881.75959 1962
404701665.08411 1963
520384576.73751 1964
478241326.03054 1965
500398177.40125 1966
534160998.47869 1967
761788735.49086 1968
861946750.15745 1969
891444000.21456 1970
1025379907.4332 1971
1112032792.2991 1972
1152080924.0398 1973
1250400070.3394 1974
1399755339.2416 1975
1503319778.3706 1976
1686890048.8362 1977
1936900728.9928 1978
2047775422.2104 1979
2094199302.5092 1980
1981455594.9924 1981
1951611673.7304 1982
2118556767.7622 1983
2118797929.5681 1984
2140291583.068 1985
2293339660.0315 1986
2367678159.6871 1987
2411599973.7874 1988
2446025992.7161 1989
2558468246.5036 1990
2707265825.3442 1991
2954277040.8696 1992
3175845557.9129 1993
4109357430.0312 1994
4513305474.4017 1995
4635605268.2284 1996
4614579831.11 1997
4778756559.6147 1998
4665144423.0331 1999
4560851356.8451 2000
4687119023.7747 2001
4764058887.1797 2002
5050361471.9148 2003
5079756813.8412 2004
5039978184.8479 2005
4938311517.982 2006
5340604526.9645 2007
5797232539.3875 2008
6299491544.8398 2009
6652734061.3729 2010
6829355319.6394 2011
7751710779.4758 2012
7565277229.0833 2013
7849833700.735 2014
8924004944.3435 2015
9396191084.7978 2016
9981986887.1736 2017
10679041326.278 2018
11280250277.125 2019
11625912797.99 2020
12319358276.051 2021
13229098071.9 2022
Kenya | General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$)
General government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption) includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees). It also includes most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. Data are in constant 2015 prices, expressed in U.S. dollars. Development relevance: An economy's growth is measured by the change in the volume of its output or in the real incomes of its residents. The 2008 United Nations System of National Accounts (2008 SNA) offers three plausible indicators for calculating growth: the volume of gross domestic product (GDP), real gross domestic income, and real gross national income. The volume of GDP is the sum of value added, measured at constant prices, by households, government, and industries operating in the economy. GDP accounts for all domestic production, regardless of whether the income accrues to domestic or foreign institutions. Limitations and exceptions: Because policymakers have tended to focus on fostering the growth of output, and because data on production are easier to collect than data on spending, many countries generate their primary estimate of GDP using the production approach. Moreover, many countries do not estimate all the components of national expenditures but instead derive some of the main aggregates indirectly using GDP (based on the production approach) as the control total. Measures of growth in consumption and capital formation are subject to two kinds of inaccuracy. The first stems from the difficulty of measuring expenditures at current price levels. The second arises in deflating current price data to measure volume growth, where results depend on the relevance and reliability of the price indexes and weights used. Measuring price changes is more difficult for investment goods than for consumption goods because of the one-time nature of many investments and because the rate of technological progress in capital goods makes capturing change in quality difficult. (An example is computers - prices have fallen as quality has improved.) To obtain government consumption in constant prices, countries may deflate current values by applying a wage (price) index or extrapolate from the change in government employment. Neither technique captures improvements in productivity or changes in the quality of government services. Statistical concept and methodology: Gross domestic product (GDP) from the expenditure side is made up of household final consumption expenditure, general government final consumption expenditure, gross capital formation (private and public investment in fixed assets, changes in inventories, and net acquisitions of valuables), and net exports (exports minus imports) of goods and services. Such expenditures are recorded in purchaser prices and include net taxes on products.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Kenya
Records
63
Source