Papua New Guinea - Expense

Expense (current LCU)

The value for Expense (current LCU) in Papua New Guinea was 16,050,370,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 16,050,370,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 958,290,000 in 1990.

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
1990	958,290,000
1991	1,081,740,000
1992	1,226,870,000
1993	1,459,390,000
1994	1,494,047,000
1995	1,520,095,000
1996	1,751,953,000
1997	1,931,282,000
1998	1,878,870,000
1999	2,589,410,000
2000	2,925,319,000
2001	2,799,006,000
2002	2,575,156,000
2014	12,426,600,000
2015	12,165,950,000
2016	11,958,900,000
2017	12,026,260,000
2018	14,538,930,000
2019	16,050,370,000

Expense (% of GDP)

Expense (% of GDP) in Papua New Guinea was 19.14 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 29 years was 31.15 in 1990, while its lowest value was 16.58 in 2017.

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.

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Year	Value
1990	31.15
1991	30.00
1992	29.05
1993	29.98
1994	27.02
1995	24.54
1996	25.78
1997	27.28
1998	24.08
1999	29.33
2000	30.05
2001	26.92
2002	22.09
2014	21.75
2015	20.23
2016	18.39
2017	16.58
2018	18.31
2019	19.14

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance