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Primary government expenditures as a proportion of original approved budget

Primary government expenditures as a proportion of original approved budget measures the extent to which aggregate budget expenditure outturn reflects the amount originally approved, as defined in government budget documentation and fiscal reports. The coverage is budgetary central government (BCG) and the time period covered is the last three completed fiscal years.

Coverage
170 of 251 countries
Latest data
2024
Series
170
Unit
percent
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-08
Indicator
primary-government-expenditures-as-a-proportion-of-original
Interva ID
worldbank-primary-government-expenditures-as-a-proportion-of-original

Recency

current

data to 2024; catalog to 2025

Provenance

2 steps

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

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Recency

100%

Latest observation is 2024; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 1 year(s) behind (current).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

100%

47 of 170 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 170 of the 251 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 15 observations; the earliest begins in 2004.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-15.

By country

Primary government expenditures as a proportion of original approved budget for each of the 170 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Azerbaijan2024104.84percent
Bulgaria202485.91percent
Cameroon202442.64percent
China202498.07percent
Ethiopia202499.44percent
Fiji202494.23percent
India202498.67percent
Indonesia2024100.76percent
Kazakhstan202497.82percent
Kenya202486.24percent

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    World Bank

    Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA), World Bank (WB), uri: https://www.pefa.org/node/5239, note: The raw data collected in order to calculate this indicator are the initially Approved and Executed Budgets. Budget Laws of countries is the usual source of the approved budget of countries. The end-of year fiscal reports (budget execution reports) are the sources of the actual spending. This data is typically obtained from websites of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) or the national Parliament, or data are collected through communication with the MoF.

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-08. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

World Bank (2026). Primary government expenditures as a proportion of original approved budget. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-primary-government-expenditures-as-a-proportion-of-original (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-primary-government-expenditures-as-a-proportion-of-original,
  title        = {Primary government expenditures as a proportion of original approved budget},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-primary-government-expenditures-as-a-proportion-of-original}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-primary-government-expenditures-as-a-proportion-of-original; catalog snapshot 2026-11-08},
  urldate      = {2026-11-15}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

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