Botswana vs Kenya: Expense

Botswana
4.71 billion current US$
in 2011
Kenya
7.68 billion current US$
in 2011
Botswana rank
10th
Kenya rank
9th

Expense over time

  • Botswana
  • Kenya
02.0B4.0B6.0B8.0B199020002011

How they compare

Kenya currently reports 7.68 billion current US$ against 4.71 billion current US$ in Botswana, a difference of 2.97 billion current US$.

That makes Kenya's figure about 1.6 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 12 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Kenya ahead.

Botswana ranks 10th and Kenya ranks 9th of 29 countries.

Individual pages

About this data

Indicator
Expense (current US$)
Unit
current US$
Source
International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
29 places, 343 data points, 1990–2011
Last refreshed

Expense is cash payments for operating activities of the government in providing goods and services. It includes compensation of employees (such as wages and salaries), interest and subsidies, grants, social benefits, and other expenses such as rent and dividends. Data are in current U.S. dollars.