Table 2 (above) shows the horizontal allocation of the provincial equitable share across all nine provinces. As shown in Table 2, for the 2013/14 financial year, KwaZulu-Natal Province received the highest share of R73.509 billion or 21.8 per cent followed by the Gauteng Province with R61.374 billion or 18.2 per cent, the Eastern Cape Province with R50.164 billion or 14.9 per cent and the Limpopo Province with R41.361 billion or 12.3 per cent. Provinces that received the smallest share include the Northern Cape Province with R9.021 billion or 2.7 per cent, the Free State Province with R20 billion or 5.9 per cent and the North West Province with R22.754 billion or 6.7 per cent.