Papua New Guinea - Net lending

Net lending (+) / net borrowing (-) (current LCU)

The value for Net lending (+) / net borrowing (-) (current LCU) in Papua New Guinea was -4,172,026,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 38,849,000 in 1996 and a minimum value of -4,172,026,000 in 2019.

Definition: Net lending (+) / net borrowing (–) equals government revenue minus expense, minus net investment in nonfinancial assets. It is also equal to the net result of transactions in financial assets and liabilities. Net lending/net borrowing is a summary measure indicating the extent to which government is either putting financial resources at the disposal of other sectors in the economy or abroad, or utilizing the financial resources generated by other sectors in the economy or from abroad.

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

Year Value
1990 -66,850,000
1991 -60,380,000
1992 -231,050,000
1993 -278,060,000
1994 -137,556,000
1995 -28,977,000
1996 38,849,000
1997 20,301,000
1998 -136,050,000
1999 -241,729,000
2000 -183,308,000
2001 -132,515,000
2002 -263,810,000
2014 -3,579,100,000
2015 -3,070,342,000
2016 -3,082,050,000
2017 -1,794,646,000
2018 -2,048,370,000
2019 -4,172,026,000

Net lending (+) / net borrowing (-) (% of GDP)

Net lending (+) / net borrowing (-) (% of GDP) in Papua New Guinea was -4.976 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 29 years was 0.572 in 1996, while its lowest value was -6.265 in 2014.

Definition: Net lending (+) / net borrowing (–) equals government revenue minus expense, minus net investment in nonfinancial assets. It is also equal to the net result of transactions in financial assets and liabilities. Net lending/net borrowing is a summary measure indicating the extent to which government is either putting financial resources at the disposal of other sectors in the economy or abroad, or utilizing the financial resources generated by other sectors in the economy or from abroad.

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

See also:

Year Value
1990 -2.173
1991 -1.675
1992 -5.471
1993 -5.713
1994 -2.487
1995 -0.468
1996 0.572
1997 0.287
1998 -1.743
1999 -2.738
2000 -1.883
2001 -1.275
2002 -2.263
2014 -6.265
2015 -5.105
2016 -4.739
2017 -2.475
2018 -2.580
2019 -4.976

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance