Table 3 (above) shows the horizontal allocation of the provincial equitable share across all nine provinces. As shown in Table 2, for the 2014/15 financial year, KwaZulu-Natal Province received the highest share of R78.138 billion or 22 per cent followed by the Gauteng Province with R68.672 billion or 19 per cent, the Eastern Cape Province with R52.154 billion or 14 per cent and the Limpopo Province with R43.274 billion or 12 per cent. Provinces that received the smallest share include the Northern Cape Province with R9.651 billion or 3 per cent, the Free State Province with R20.883 billion or 6 per cent and the North West Province with R24.706 billion or 7 per cent.