Ethiopia - Expense

Expense (current LCU)

The value for Expense (current LCU) in Ethiopia was 261,149,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 261,149,000,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 3,350,700,000 in 1992.

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
1990 4,053,900,000
1991 3,699,800,000
1992 3,350,700,000
1993 3,948,400,000
1994 4,984,000,000
1995 5,686,400,000
1996 5,992,500,000
1997 6,918,700,000
1998 8,610,900,000
1999 10,503,300,000
2001 9,948,300,000
2002 11,566,100,000
2003 11,664,200,000
2004 14,118,000,000
2005 15,934,300,000
2006 12,622,900,000
2007 13,332,980,000
2008 32,221,750,000
2009 41,073,300,000
2010 48,246,900,000
2011 54,515,560,000
2012 63,271,500,000
2013 88,529,230,000
2014 101,334,000,000
2015 134,698,000,000
2016 158,210,000,000
2017 205,868,000,000
2018 237,998,000,000
2019 261,149,000,000

Expense (% of GDP)

Expense (% of GDP) in Ethiopia was 9.71 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 29 years was 18.16 in 1999, while its lowest value was 7.69 in 2007.

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
1990 16.09
1991 13.28
1992 11.39
1993 10.47
1994 12.44
1995 11.87
1996 11.10
1997 12.40
1998 16.00
1999 18.16
2001 14.51
2002 17.25
2003 15.76
2004 16.17
2005 14.85
2006 9.52
2007 7.69
2008 12.88
2009 12.15
2010 12.50
2011 10.58
2012 8.47
2013 10.21
2014 9.55
2015 10.38
2016 10.09
2017 11.23
2018 10.82
2019 9.71

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance