Other expense (current LCU) - Country Ranking - Africa

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.

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Uganda 636,706,000,000.00 2019
2 Tanzania 456,078,000,000.00 2018
3 Côte d'Ivoire 361,819,000,000.00 2019
4 Senegal 341,393,000,000.00 2018
5 South Africa 225,472,000,000.00 2019
6 Burkina Faso 183,387,000,000.00 2019
7 Congo 177,177,000,000.00 2018
8 Rwanda 176,363,000,000.00 2019
9 Equatorial Guinea 162,635,000,000.00 2019
10 Angola 104,508,000,000.00 2019
11 Madagascar 57,111,040,000.00 2019
12 Mali 54,826,130,000.00 2019
13 Egypt 51,500,000,000.00 2015
14 Togo 37,685,620,000.00 2019
15 Central African Republic 30,270,000,000.00 2018
16 Ethiopia 27,482,350,000.00 2019
17 Kenya 20,850,720,000.00 2019
18 Gabon 18,638,090,000.00 2019
19 Morocco 17,853,000,000.00 2019
20 Burundi 13,062,600,000.00 1999
21 Mauritius 12,915,300,000.00 2019
22 Malawi 9,531,188,000.00 2020
23 Cameroon 5,328,724,000.00 2018
24 Botswana 4,200,370,000.00 2019
25 Ghana 2,628,055,000.00 2019
26 Tunisia 2,317,700,000.00 2012
27 Cabo Verde 1,646,612,000.00 2017
28 Mozambique 1,062,400,000.00 2019
29 Lesotho 837,478,800.00 2019
30 Guinea-Bissau 835,757,000.00 2019
31 Guinea 598,000,000.00 1992
32 Seychelles 269,327,000.00 2018
33 Zambia 181,729,900.00 2019
34 Namibia 139,215,700.00 2019
35 The Gambia 40,500,000.00 1990
36 Somalia 410,000.00 2019
37 Sudan 0.00 1999
37 Zimbabwe 0.00 2018

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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