Turkey - Expense

Expense (current LCU)

The value for Expense (current LCU) in Turkey was 1,718,390,000,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,718,390,000,000 in 2020 and a minimum value of 43,100 in 1972.

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
1972 43,100
1973 55,100
1974 60,900
1975 91,700
1976 115,900
1977 168,200
1978 254,000
1979 520,100
1980 954,100
1981 1,242,500
1983 2,329,600
1984 3,857,700
1985 5,870,400
1986 6,982,100
1987 10,792,500
1988 18,659,900
1989 34,064,600
1990 60,121,100
1991 121,192,300
1992 206,290,000
1993 454,545,000
1994 848,544,000
1995 1,626,661,000
1996 3,718,611,000
1997 7,950,337,000
1998 15,719,150,000
2008 304,238,000,000
2009 357,945,000,000
2010 383,885,000,000
2011 426,238,000,000
2012 467,806,000,000
2013 531,007,000,000
2014 603,679,000,000
2015 678,997,000,000
2016 804,922,000,000
2017 994,395,000,000
2018 1,261,090,000,000
2019 1,535,070,000,000
2020 1,718,390,000,000

Expense (% of GDP)

Expense (% of GDP) in Turkey was 34.05 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 35.57 in 2009, while its lowest value was 12.28 in 1974.

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
1972 14.91
1973 15.14
1974 12.28
1975 14.23
1976 14.08
1977 15.92
1978 16.06
1979 18.72
1980 18.24
1981 15.73
1983 16.75
1984 17.54
1985 16.73
1986 13.67
1987 14.44
1988 14.44
1989 14.99
1990 15.30
1991 19.23
1992 18.87
1993 22.94
1994 21.94
1995 20.96
1996 25.17
1997 27.57
1998 21.85
2008 30.34
2009 35.57
2010 32.88
2011 30.34
2012 29.58
2013 29.12
2014 29.38
2015 28.88
2016 30.65
2017 31.73
2018 33.55
2019 35.55
2020 34.05

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance