Lebanon - Expense

Expense (current LCU)

The value for Expense (current LCU) in Lebanon was 23,407,200,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24,288,100,000,000 in 2018 and a minimum value of 6,845,460,000,000 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 6,845,460,000,000
1999 7,357,000,000,000
2000 7,938,900,000,000
2001 7,718,500,000,000
2002 8,185,800,000,000
2003 9,225,480,000,000
2004 8,563,500,000,000
2005 8,699,390,000,000
2006 10,528,300,000,000
2007 11,816,200,000,000
2008 13,410,100,000,000
2009 15,361,200,000,000
2010 14,977,300,000,000
2011 15,888,400,000,000
2012 17,782,700,000,000
2013 18,863,700,000,000
2014 18,812,400,000,000
2015 17,234,600,000,000
2016 19,929,200,000,000
2017 20,771,100,000,000
2018 24,288,100,000,000
2019 23,407,200,000,000

Expense (% of GDP)

Expense (% of GDP) in Lebanon was 28.99 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 21 years was 31.71 in 2006, while its lowest value was 22.84 in 2015.

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 26.18
1999 28.06
2000 30.51
2001 29.01
2002 28.35
2003 30.47
2004 26.85
2005 26.84
2006 31.71
2007 31.57
2008 30.55
2009 28.79
2010 25.84
2011 26.40
2012 26.79
2013 26.68
2014 25.93
2015 22.84
2016 25.73
2017 25.84
2018 29.15
2019 28.99

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance