Expense
Expense is a decrease in net worth resulting from a transaction. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Unit
- —
- Cadence
- Annual
- Series
- 161
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-06
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
International Monetary Fund
Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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World Bank
World Development Indicators, World Bank (WB)
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OECD
National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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Read from
World Bank
World Development Indicators
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Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Botswana | 2024 | 26.53 | percent |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 2024 | 16.34 | percent |
| Albania | 2023 | 25.44 | percent |
| Argentina | 2023 | 21.01 | percent |
| Armenia | 2023 | 20.95 | percent |
| Austria | 2023 | 46.03 | percent |
| Bahamas | 2023 | 20.35 | percent |
| Belarus | 2023 | 28.47 | percent |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2023 | 35.30 | percent |
| Botswana | 2023 | 23.89 | percent |
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