Lower middle income - General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2010 US$)

The latest value for General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2010 US$) in Lower middle income was 900,876,000,000 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 900,876,000,000 in 2020 and 47,053,860,000 in 1961.

Definition: General government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption) includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees). It also includes most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. Data are in constant 2010 U.S. dollars.

Source: World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.

See also:

Year Value
1960 47,745,990,000
1961 47,053,860,000
1962 47,204,360,000
1963 53,732,260,000
1964 58,831,450,000
1965 61,294,830,000
1966 66,192,840,000
1967 68,647,310,000
1968 74,526,740,000
1969 80,676,280,000
1970 88,735,550,000
1971 100,404,000,000
1972 111,101,000,000
1973 118,106,000,000
1974 140,416,000,000
1975 165,648,000,000
1976 183,546,000,000
1977 186,679,000,000
1978 193,475,000,000
1979 199,320,000,000
1980 197,818,000,000
1981 203,732,000,000
1982 210,960,000,000
1983 214,872,000,000
1984 216,623,000,000
1985 228,821,000,000
1986 225,529,000,000
1987 229,351,000,000
1988 238,048,000,000
1989 245,634,000,000
1990 252,583,000,000
1991 261,570,000,000
1992 267,353,000,000
1993 281,240,000,000
1994 282,466,000,000
1995 288,683,000,000
1996 295,855,000,000
1997 305,590,000,000
1998 315,365,000,000
1999 324,045,000,000
2000 336,499,000,000
2001 347,316,000,000
2002 358,881,000,000
2003 373,890,000,000
2004 399,997,000,000
2005 422,340,000,000
2006 456,590,000,000
2007 492,585,000,000
2008 525,425,000,000
2009 567,017,000,000
2010 591,559,000,000
2011 623,946,000,000
2012 645,217,000,000
2013 657,242,000,000
2014 679,656,000,000
2015 712,656,000,000
2016 734,452,000,000
2017 776,143,000,000
2018 818,957,000,000
2019 855,408,000,000
2020 900,876,000,000

Development Relevance: An economy's growth is measured by the change in the volume of its output or in the real incomes of its residents. The 2008 United Nations System of National Accounts (2008 SNA) offers three plausible indicators for calculating growth: the volume of gross domestic product (GDP), real gross domestic income, and real gross national income. The volume of GDP is the sum of value added, measured at constant prices, by households, government, and industries operating in the economy. GDP accounts for all domestic production, regardless of whether the income accrues to domestic or foreign institutions.

Limitations and Exceptions: Because policymakers have tended to focus on fostering the growth of output, and because data on production are easier to collect than data on spending, many countries generate their primary estimate of GDP using the production approach. Moreover, many countries do not estimate all the components of national expenditures but instead derive some of the main aggregates indirectly using GDP (based on the production approach) as the control total. Measures of growth in consumption and capital formation are subject to two kinds of inaccuracy. The first stems from the difficulty of measuring expenditures at current price levels. The second arises in deflating current price data to measure volume growth, where results depend on the relevance and reliability of the price indexes and weights used. Measuring price changes is more difficult for investment goods than for consumption goods because of the one-time nature of many investments and because the rate of technological progress in capital goods makes capturing change in quality difficult. (An example is computers - prices have fallen as quality has improved.) To obtain government consumption in constant prices, countries may deflate current values by applying a wage (price) index or extrapolate from the change in government employment. Neither technique captures improvements in productivity or changes in the quality of government services.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Gross domestic product (GDP) from the expenditure side is made up of household final consumption expenditure, general government final consumption expenditure, gross capital formation (private and public investment in fixed assets, changes in inventories, and net acquisitions of valuables), and net exports (exports minus imports) of goods and services. Such expenditures are recorded in purchaser prices and include net taxes on products.

Aggregation method: Gap-filled total

Base Period: 2010

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts