Botswana - Net incurrence of liabilities

Net incurrence of liabilities, total (current LCU)

The value for Net incurrence of liabilities, total (current LCU) in Botswana was 1,277,650,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5,189,640,000 in 2009 and a minimum value of -4,776,360,000 in 2016.

Definition: Net incurrence of government liabilities includes foreign financing (obtained from nonresidents) and domestic financing (obtained from residents), or the means by which a government provides financial resources to cover a budget deficit or allocates financial resources arising from a budget surplus. The net incurrence of liabilities should be offset by the net acquisition of financial assets.

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

Year Value
1990 -50,920,000
1991 176,400,000
1992 -57,200,000
1993 163,600,000
1994 12,500,000
1995 -18,200,000
1996 101,500,000
2006 -578,670,000
2007 211,410,000
2008 88,510,000
2009 5,189,640,000
2010 4,462,310,000
2011 387,130,000
2012 -2,450,730,000
2013 1,521,070,000
2014 1,005,390,000
2015 -2,491,367,000
2016 -4,776,360,000
2017 1,106,876,000
2018 -1,458,530,000
2019 1,277,650,000

Net incurrence of liabilities, total (% of GDP)

Net incurrence of liabilities, total (% of GDP) in Botswana was 0.72 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 29 years was 7.06 in 2009, while its lowest value was -2.91 in 2016.

Definition: Net incurrence of government liabilities includes foreign financing (obtained from nonresidents) and domestic financing (obtained from residents), or the means by which a government provides financial resources to cover a budget deficit or allocates financial resources arising from a budget surplus. The net incurrence of liabilities should be offset by the net acquisition of financial assets.

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

See also:

Year Value
1990 -0.72
1991 2.21
1992 -0.65
1993 1.62
1994 0.11
1995 -0.14
1996 0.63
2006 -0.98
2007 0.31
2008 0.12
2009 7.06
2010 5.14
2011 0.37
2012 -2.23
2013 1.22
2014 0.72
2015 -1.81
2016 -2.91
2017 0.66
2018 -0.85
2019 0.72

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance