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Year-on-year debt growth in Kenya (2021-2025)
Power BI visualization: Line and column charts
Kenya's debt analysis for fiscal year 2021-2025
Kenya's debt analysis for fiscal year 2021-2025
The aim of this analysis is to show the progressive growth in Kenya's debt amount between 2021 and 2025.
Key insights
Kenya's total debt growth grew 37% from 8.5 billion (2021/2022) to 11.8 billion (2024/2025).
Debt service crisis— The debt service percentage revenue for 2024/2025 was at 71.2%, being significantly above the 30% ceiling usually recommended by International Monetary Fund.
Domestic debt vs external debt- Domestic debt in 2025 was at 55.6% and at 48% .This shift caused aggressive competition for Micro,Small and Medium enterprises in Kenya
Tools used
SQL database and Power BI visualization.
Data Sources
National Treasury Annual Public Debt Management Reports (2021/22–2023/24).
Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Monetary Policy Reports.
Institute of Public Finance (IPF) Analysis.
FinAccess Household Surveys (2021, 2024).
Cytonn Weekly Research Reports .
SQL Query (Kenya Debt Analysis database)
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SQL Queries
SQL Queries
The Kenya Debt Analysis database was created to verify the data from the various published sources and create analytical sources to answer the trend analysis questions that this case study was purposed for.
SQL Query (Debt service pct. revenue, 2021-2025)
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Debt servicing query
The query analyzed the debt service burden on the revenue collected every fiscal year.
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