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.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
169
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.

  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.

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  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

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

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