Venezuela - Cash surplus or deficit

Cash surplus/deficit (current LCU)

The value for Cash surplus/deficit (current LCU) in Venezuela was 6,625,417,000.00 as of 2005. As the graph below shows, over the past 15 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 6,625,417,000.00 in 2005 and a minimum value of -5,533,117,000.00 in 2003.

Definition: Cash surplus or deficit is revenue (including grants) minus expense, minus net acquisition of nonfinancial assets. In the 1986 GFS manual nonfinancial assets were included under revenue and expenditure in gross terms. This cash surplus or deficit is closest to the earlier overall budget balance (still missing is lending minus repayments, which are now a financing item under net acquisition of financial assets).

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

Year Value
1990 66,999,000.00
1991 111,392,000.00
1992 -75,601,000.00
1993 -67,702,000.00
1994 -91,226,000.00
1995 -298,876,000.00
1996 803,628,000.00
1997 1,346,657,000.00
1998 -1,856,952,000.00
1999 -918,134,000.00
2000 -986,737,000.00
2001 -3,557,272,000.00
2002 -3,484,631,000.00
2003 -5,533,117,000.00
2004 -2,774,689,000.00
2005 6,625,417,000.00

Cash surplus/deficit (% of GDP)

Cash surplus/deficit (% of GDP) in Venezuela was 2.18 as of 2005. Its highest value over the past 15 years was 3.79 in 1991, while its lowest value was -4.12 in 2003.

Definition: Cash surplus or deficit is revenue (including grants) minus expense, minus net acquisition of nonfinancial assets. In the 1986 GFS manual nonfinancial assets were included under revenue and expenditure in gross terms. This cash surplus or deficit is closest to the earlier overall budget balance (still missing is lending minus repayments, which are now a financing item under net acquisition of financial assets).

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

See also:

Year Value
1990 3.04
1991 3.79
1992 -1.89
1993 -1.28
1994 -1.09
1995 -2.26
1996 2.82
1997 3.21
1998 -3.71
1999 -1.55
2000 -1.24
2001 -4.00
2002 -3.23
2003 -4.12
2004 -1.30
2005 2.18

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance