Other expense (% of expense) - 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 Central African Republic 24.24 2018
2 Equatorial Guinea 21.41 2019
3 Burundi 13.89 1999
4 Senegal 13.40 2018
5 Congo 12.68 2018
6 South Africa 11.65 2019
7 Mauritius 11.04 2019
8 Burkina Faso 10.72 2019
9 Ethiopia 10.52 2019
10 Rwanda 9.79 2019
11 The Gambia 9.45 1990
12 Tunisia 9.29 2012
13 Botswana 8.11 2019
14 Côte d'Ivoire 7.50 2019
15 Egypt 6.97 2015
16 Togo 6.87 2019
17 Lesotho 6.18 2019
18 Morocco 6.16 2019
19 Mali 4.21 2019
20 Ghana 4.21 2019
21 Seychelles 3.82 2018
22 Uganda 3.57 2019
23 Cabo Verde 3.35 2017
24 Tanzania 2.42 2018
25 Angola 2.07 2019
26 Gabon 1.39 2019
27 Madagascar 1.10 2019
28 Kenya 1.08 2019
29 Guinea-Bissau 0.68 2019
30 Malawi 0.66 2020
31 Mozambique 0.55 2019
32 Namibia 0.31 2019
33 Zambia 0.28 2019
34 Guinea 0.21 1992
35 Cameroon 0.21 2018
36 Somalia 0.14 2019
37 Zimbabwe 0.00 2018
37 Sudan 0.00 1999

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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.

Aggregation method: Median

Periodicity: Annual