El Salvador - Other expense (current LCU)

The value for Other expense (current LCU) in El Salvador was 822,800,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 903,400,000 in 2018 and a minimum value of 400,000 in 1998.

Definition: Other expense is spending on dividends, rent, and other miscellaneous expenses, including provision for consumption of fixed capital.

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

Year Value
1998 400,000
1999 6,350,000
2000 56,670,000
2001 51,200,000
2002 700,400,000
2003 504,200,000
2004 725,700,000
2005 159,500,000
2006 356,600,000
2007 388,500,000
2008 606,400,000
2009 819,400,000
2010 520,400,000
2011 732,086,500
2012 370,480,100
2013 806,100,000
2014 9,721,246
2015 60,418,540
2016 448,070,400
2017 778,449,900
2018 903,400,000
2019 822,800,000

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.

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance