Dominican Republic - Expense

Expense (current LCU)

The value for Expense (current LCU) in Dominican Republic was 723,755,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 723,755,000,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 225,800,000 in 1972.

Definition: Expense is cash payments for operating activities of the government in providing goods and services. It includes compensation of employees (such as wages and salaries), interest and subsidies, grants, social benefits, and other expenses such as rent and dividends.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1972 225,800,000
1973 250,300,000
1974 329,800,000
1975 337,000,000
1976 410,600,000
1978 513,500,000
1979 815,800,000
1980 933,100,000
1981 956,600,000
1982 908,700,000
1983 1,048,200,000
1984 1,157,300,000
1985 1,680,700,000
1986 2,003,400,000
1987 1,899,500,000
1988 3,104,800,000
1989 3,597,900,000
1990 4,158,700,000
1991 6,870,500,000
1992 10,180,600,000
1993 13,988,700,000
1994 14,738,700,000
1995 16,524,900,000
1996 19,014,000,000
1997 28,706,600,000
1998 32,488,000,000
1999 37,666,000,000
2000 43,214,500,000
2001 52,003,500,000
2002 59,249,420,000
2003 67,337,400,000
2004 124,783,000,000
2005 147,298,000,000
2006 173,566,000,000
2007 198,144,000,000
2008 255,838,000,000
2009 262,047,000,000
2010 281,789,000,000
2011 309,782,000,000
2012 377,824,000,000
2013 404,842,000,000
2014 457,630,000,000
2015 487,436,000,000
2016 563,163,000,000
2017 609,166,000,000
2018 665,221,000,000
2019 723,755,000,000

Expense (% of GDP)

Expense (% of GDP) in Dominican Republic was 15.86 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 16.15 in 2016, while its lowest value was 5.56 in 1991.

Definition: Expense is cash payments for operating activities of the government in providing goods and services. It includes compensation of employees (such as wages and salaries), interest and subsidies, grants, social benefits, and other expenses such as rent and dividends.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, and World Bank and OECD GDP estimates.

See also:

Year Value
1972 11.36
1973 10.67
1974 11.27
1975 9.36
1976 10.39
1978 10.85
1979 14.84
1980 13.80
1981 12.65
1982 10.99
1983 11.37
1984 9.98
1985 10.70
1986 11.27
1987 8.48
1988 9.45
1989 8.49
1990 6.90
1991 5.56
1992 7.02
1993 8.56
1994 7.98
1995 7.72
1996 8.08
1997 10.24
1998 10.20
1999 10.75
2000 10.99
2001 12.17
2002 12.41
2003 10.71
2004 13.33
2005 13.60
2006 13.76
2007 13.59
2008 15.40
2009 15.09
2010 14.21
2011 14.02
2012 15.83
2013 15.45
2014 15.64
2015 15.21
2016 16.15
2017 16.02
2018 15.70
2019 15.86

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance