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Municipal finance

Local government evidence across countries. See Data connectors for source coverage; unavailable municipal figures remain MISSING.

Council accounts by country

Same format as South Africa: headline income and spending, fiscal ratios and line items, each with its official source, year and retrieval time.

South Africa
National Treasury · every municipality · live (below)
Brazil
Tesouro Nacional (National Treasury) · Every municipality and all 27 states · live
France
Observatoire des finances et de la gestion publique locales (OFGL) · Every commune · live
Colombia
Contaduría General / Ministerio de Hacienda (CUIPO) · Every reporting municipality and department · live
United Kingdom — England
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Every English council that submitted a return (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland not yet connected) · official file snapshot
Norway
Statistics Norway (SSB) — KOSTRA · Every municipality and county council · live
Not yet connected:
  • United States — Census Bureau finance service needs a free access key; it publishes state-and-local totals per state, while city-by-city accounts are bulk files.
  • Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland — Each publishes its own council returns in a different format; not yet connected.
  • BRICS — India — State budgets are in the Reserve Bank's yearly State Finances files behind a registered portal; the national open-data service needs a free key. Not connected; shown as MISSING.
  • BRICS — China — The statistics bureau's provincial finance service exists but blocked access from AXIOM's servers. Not connected.
  • BRICS — Russia — The Finance Ministry posts regional budget results as downloadable spreadsheets; the Electronic Budget service did not respond. Not connected.
  • BRICS — Egypt, Ethiopia — Finance ministry sites load, but budgets are published only as PDF reports. Shown as MISSING.
  • BRICS — Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE — Official data portals did not respond or had removed their data service when checked (October 2026). Shown as MISSING.
  • Africa — Kenya — County finances are published as PDF budget reports, not open data. Checked October 2026; shown as MISSING.
  • Africa — Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Morocco and others — Not yet checked. Shown as MISSING.
  • Asia — South Korea, Japan — Complete local finance data exists (LOFIN, e-Stat) but needs a free access key; can be connected once a key is added.
  • Asia — Indonesia, Philippines and others — Indonesia's regional finance portal did not respond and its open-data service has moved; others not yet checked. Not connected.
  • Europe — Sweden, Poland, Netherlands, Spain, Italy and others — Open sources exist and are next in line; Germany needs a free account. Not yet connected.
  • Other countries — No open council-by-council accounts service found yet, or published only as PDF reports. Shown as MISSING.
Global view

Local government in any country

Kenya · full country profile. Figures are fetched live with source and year; anything not published stays MISSING, never zero or estimated.

Government finance by level (% of GDP)

IMF Government Finance Statistics (live API). Provincial and local rows are totals for all such governments combined. Levels overlap through transfers, so rows must not be added together.

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Districts & municipalities

Official units, live from geoBoundaries gbOpen (live API). Per-unit finance and social figures need that country's own statistics office or treasury connected; until then they show MISSING.

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