Allocation
What a government plans or authorises to spend.
Public money. Public priorities. People’s lives. Follow the numbers across five African countries — and ask better questions about what they reveal.
Nigeria · Ghana · Kenya · South Africa · Egypt
A budget is a plan. Reported spending is another part of the story. Every figure needs a period, a coverage note and an evidence grade.
What a government plans or authorises to spend.
Money made available during implementation, where reported.
What available reports say was spent, with limitations.
How complete and comparable the evidence is.
Choose a sector, year, currency and scale. Every bar keeps its evidence grade and coverage note attached.
PPP international dollars · total amount
These are tests to investigate, not conclusions pre-written into the data. Each result needs supporting evidence, counter-evidence and a clear verdict.
Compare revised allocations with reported expenditure, separating capital and recurrent spending where possible.
Compare changes in interest share with changes in sector shares.
2022 → 2023 onlyUse inflation-adjusted measures, per-person figures and % GDP where supported.
2022 → 2023 onlyCompare eligible 2023 health and education measures with relevant commitments.
Examine real spending per tertiary student and tertiary’s share of education spending.
2022 → 2023 onlySupported, Not supported or Untestable — with a reason. Missing data never means zero.
Each sector starts with a question and leads into the interactive chart above.
What do the records reveal about public health priorities?
How closely does reported spending reflect planned commitments?
What share of education spending reaches higher education?
How much of the public commitment to power can we trace?
Which water spending is visible — and what remains hidden?
Some energy costs sit outside ordinary sector spending lines.
Search the pilot dataset. Every row remains attached to its period, evidence grade and basis description.
| Country ↕ | Sector ↕ | Period ↕ | Local bn ↕ | Market US$ bn ↕ | PPP $ bn ↕ | Grade ↕ | Basis / coverage | Details |
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74 records
This pilot helps people ask better questions, not manufacture a league table from unlike data.
Market US dollars show nominal foreign-currency equivalents. PPP international dollars use a different conversion intended to reflect purchasing power. Neither replaces local currency. Values in the supplied file are derived, not inflation-adjusted US dollars.
A: actual spending with same coverage in both years. B: actual but partial, or budget with good coverage. C: budget-only or federal-only. Grades are not performance ratings.
Compare ratios and within-country changes before absolute totals. Never add across currencies or countries. Energy subsidies and bailouts are separate and should not be added into power-sector totals.
Nigeria and Ghana use calendar years; Kenya and Egypt use July–June fiscal years; South Africa uses April–March fiscal years.
Sector figures in this dollar dataset are federal budgets only (grade C), not all public spending. 2023 petrol subsidy covers January–May and is borne by all tiers. Tertiary portal submissions are not verified actual spending or confirmed national enrolment.
The CSV has basis descriptions but not a page/table citation URL for every row. Check the country workbooks. Conflicts and overlapping budget vintages remain separate pending review.
National budget and implementation reports: Nigeria Budget Office; Ghana Ministry of Finance annual budget performance reports and programme-based budgets; Kenya Economic Survey 2024 and Controller of Budget; South Africa Budget Reviews 2023–2024 and Estimates of National Expenditure 2025; Egypt Ministry of Finance fiscal operations and Financial Monthly Bulletins. Macro inputs are attributed in the brief to World Bank WDI updated 8 October 2026. Detailed citations are referenced in the five country workbooks, not yet linked row-by-row here.
Design basis: WTMG Design System and Dashboard Product Specification v1.1 and WTMG Dollars Brief.