Seychelles - Expense

Expense (current LCU)

The value for Expense (current LCU) in Seychelles was 7,053,065,000 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 33 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 7,053,065,000 in 2018 and a minimum value of 520,500,000 in 1985.

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
1985 520,500,000
1986 566,600,000
1987 644,100,000
1988 687,900,000
1989 814,000,000
1993 1,190,100,000
1994 1,163,000,000
1995 1,133,700,000
1996 1,286,600,000
1997 1,423,800,000
1998 1,475,200,000
1999 1,478,600,000
2000 1,515,100,000
2005 1,541,104,000
2006 1,897,000,000
2007 2,198,049,000
2008 2,280,604,000
2009 3,066,598,000
2010 3,352,447,000
2011 3,470,492,000
2012 4,035,621,000
2013 4,427,418,000
2014 4,980,109,000
2015 5,346,134,000
2016 6,336,804,000
2017 6,855,284,000
2018 7,053,065,000

Expense (% of GDP)

Expense (% of GDP) in Seychelles was 32.76 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 33 years was 51.46 in 1996, while its lowest value was 24.93 in 2008.

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
1985 43.20
1986 44.13
1987 46.14
1988 45.02
1989 47.30
1993 48.46
1994 47.29
1995 46.85
1996 51.46
1997 50.32
1998 46.08
1999 44.43
2000 43.12
2005 30.49
2006 33.81
2007 31.74
2008 24.93
2009 26.59
2010 28.64
2011 26.30
2012 27.79
2013 27.65
2014 29.09
2015 29.15
2016 33.35
2017 32.87
2018 32.76

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance