Goods and services expense (% of expense) - Country Ranking - Africa

Definition: Goods and services include all government payments in exchange for goods and services used for the production of market and nonmarket goods and services. Own-account capital formation is excluded.

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

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Dem. Rep. Congo 43.14 1989
2 Seychelles 39.69 2018
3 Equatorial Guinea 37.56 2019
4 Cameroon 34.23 2018
5 Uganda 33.78 2019
6 Guinea 30.79 1992
7 Somalia 30.73 2019
8 Rwanda 29.77 2019
9 Togo 29.12 2019
10 The Gambia 28.32 1990
11 Senegal 28.28 2018
12 Malawi 25.67 2020
13 Central African Republic 24.40 2018
14 Niger 24.12 1980
15 Mali 23.82 2019
16 Lesotho 23.32 2019
17 Guinea-Bissau 22.27 2019
18 Burundi 22.09 1996
19 Botswana 20.33 2019
20 Ethiopia 19.80 2019
21 Namibia 15.79 2019
22 Angola 15.48 2019
23 Congo 15.24 2018
24 Cabo Verde 15.08 2017
25 Zambia 14.06 2019
26 Sudan 14.04 2016
27 Kenya 13.49 2019
28 Burkina Faso 13.46 2019
29 Mauritius 13.24 2019
30 Mozambique 13.23 2019
31 Tanzania 12.09 2018
32 Côte d'Ivoire 11.88 2019
33 Gabon 11.65 2019
34 Morocco 10.75 2019
35 Ghana 9.88 2019
36 Zimbabwe 9.46 2018
37 South Africa 9.00 2019
38 Madagascar 6.68 2019
39 Tunisia 4.36 2012
40 Egypt 4.27 2015

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Limitations and Exceptions: For most countries central government finance data have been consolidated into one account, but for others only budgetary central government accounts are available. Countries reporting budgetary data are noted in the country metadata. Because budgetary accounts may not include all central government units (such as social security funds), they usually provide an incomplete picture. In federal states the central government accounts provide an incomplete view of total public finance. Data on government revenue and expense are collected by the IMF through questionnaires to member countries and by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Despite IMF efforts to standardize data collection, statistics are often incomplete, untimely, and not comparable across countries.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014, harmonized with the 2008 SNA, recommends an accrual accounting method, focusing on all economic events affecting assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses, not just those represented by cash transactions. It accounts for all changes in stocks, so stock data at the end of an accounting period equal stock data at the beginning of the period plus flows over the period. The 1986 manual considered only debt stocks. Government finance statistics are reported in local currency. Many countries report government finance data by fiscal year; see country metadata for information on fiscal year end by country.

Aggregation method: Median

Periodicity: Annual