United Arab Emirates - Expense

Expense (current LCU)

The value for Expense (current LCU) in United Arab Emirates was 65,383,490,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 22 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65,383,490,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 17,521,000,000 in 1997.

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
1997 17,521,000,000
1998 18,200,000,000
1999 19,228,000,000
2011 53,129,060,000
2012 58,444,660,000
2013 57,465,250,000
2014 57,670,470,000
2015 56,404,640,000
2016 58,559,790,000
2017 57,586,160,000
2018 61,451,440,000
2019 65,383,490,000

Expense (% of GDP)

Expense (% of GDP) in United Arab Emirates was 4.27 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 22 years was 6.55 in 1998, while its lowest value was 3.90 in 2014.

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
1997 6.05
1998 6.55
1999 6.20
2011 4.13
2012 4.25
2013 4.01
2014 3.90
2015 4.29
2016 4.47
2017 4.07
2018 3.96
2019 4.27

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance