Federal budget by type of spending, as passed (2014–2026)
Capital, recurrent (non-debt), debt service (including sinking fund) and statutory transfers in ₦ trillion, from Section 1 of the Appropriation Acts and the appropriation schedules published by the Budget Office of the Federation. 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2021: Appropriation Act (2015 capital includes ₦0.14trn of capital spending in statutory transfers, as the Act states); 2017: harmonised bill as finally amended; 2018: Appropriation Act; 2020: revised (COVID-19) budget; 2022: bill as passed; 2026: final Appropriation Bill as signed. Years for which the Budget Office schedule could not be read are left out. Capital excludes capital inside statutory transfers.
About this dataset
The data
| 2014 | 1.12 | 2.45 | 0.71 | 0.41 | 4.70 |
| 2015 | 0.56 | 2.61 | 0.95 | 0.38 | 4.49 |
| 2016 | 1.59 | 2.65 | 1.48 | 0.35 | 6.06 |
| 2017 | 2.18 | 2.99 | 1.84 | 0.43 | 7.44 |
| 2018 | 2.87 | 3.51 | 2.20 | 0.53 | 9.12 |
| 2020 | 2.49 | 4.94 | 2.95 | 0.43 | 10.81 |
| 2021 | 4.13 | 5.64 | 3.32 | 0.50 | 13.59 |
| 2022 | 5.47 | 6.91 | 3.88 | 0.87 | 17.13 |
| 2026 | 32.29 | 15.43 | 15.81 | 4.80 | 68.32 |
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