El Salvador - Expense

Expense (current LCU)

The value for Expense (current LCU) in El Salvador was 6,655,600,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 6,655,600,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 1,311,490,000 in 1998.

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
1998 1,311,490,000
1999 1,606,430,000
2000 1,770,100,000
2001 2,821,300,000
2002 2,561,000,000
2003 2,297,100,000
2004 2,692,500,000
2005 3,009,500,000
2006 3,604,700,000
2007 3,494,600,000
2008 4,092,300,000
2009 4,550,600,000
2010 4,454,400,000
2011 5,048,607,000
2012 4,897,900,000
2013 5,057,000,000
2014 5,144,470,000
2015 5,335,315,000
2016 5,614,324,000
2017 6,205,828,000
2018 6,434,200,000
2019 6,655,600,000

Expense (% of GDP)

Expense (% of GDP) in El Salvador was 24.75 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 21 years was 25.85 in 2009, while its lowest value was 11.99 in 1998.

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
1998 11.99
1999 14.24
2000 15.02
2001 22.97
2002 20.22
2003 17.34
2004 19.62
2005 20.48
2006 22.53
2007 20.54
2008 22.75
2009 25.85
2010 24.15
2011 24.89
2012 22.90
2013 23.00
2014 22.77
2015 22.76
2016 23.21
2017 24.84
2018 24.73
2019 24.75

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance