Angola: Goods and services expense (% of expense)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2019, Angola's goods and services expense (% of expense) rose 7.03 percentage points on 2018 (from 22.33% to 29.36%).

Across the 19 yearly changes before that (2000 to 2018), the average change was −1.33 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 6.15 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.4 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 8.74 percentage points in 2005 and the biggest yearly fall was 14.14 percentage points in 2004. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2010 to 2019 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 22% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

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Closest to Angola in the 2019 ranking

• Trinidad and Tobago — 2nd of 2: 22.07%

What this measures

Goods and services include all government payments in exchange for goods and services used for the production of market and nonmarket goods and services. Use of goods and services for own account capital formation is excluded. This indicator is expressed as percentage of total expenses which is any decrease in net worth resulting from a transaction.

Limitations: For most countries central government finance data have been consolidated into one account, but for others only budgetary central government accounts are available. Countries reporting budgetary data are noted in the country metadata. Because budgetary accounts may not include all central government units (such as social security funds), they usually provide an incomplete picture. In federal states the central government accounts provide an incomplete view of total public finance. Data on government revenue and expense are collected by the IMF through questionnaires to member countries and by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a median.

All 21 values

Goods and services expense (% of expense) in nearby economies

• Botswana — 28.41% (2023)
• Burkina Faso — 9.69% (2023)
• Burundi — 17.8% (2021)
• Cabo Verde — 20.46% (2020)
• Cameroon — 33.62% (2021)
• Central African Republic — 31.7% (2021)
• Congo, Dem. Rep. — 27.48% (2022)
• Congo, Rep. — 27.07% (2021)
• Côte d'Ivoire — 16.21% (2023)
• Equatorial Guinea — 25.39% (2022)

More public sector data for Angola

• Military expenditure (current USD) — 1.46 billion (2025)
• Military expenditure (current LCU) — 1.34 trillion (2025)
• Arms imports (SIPRI trend indicator values) — 84 million (2025)
• Military expenditure (% of GDP) — 1.4% (2025)
• Armed forces personnel, total — 117,000 (2020)
• Armed forces personnel (% of total labor force) — 0.87% (2020)
• Military expenditure (% of general government expenditure) — 5.92% (2025)
• Net acquisition of financial assets (current LCU) — -2.2 trillion (2024)
• Net acquisition of financial assets (% of GDP) — -2.11% (2024)
• Net incurrence of liabilities, total (current LCU)

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Questions people ask

What is Angola's goods and services expense (% of expense)?

29.36% in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1999?

It is down 18.22 percentage points from 47.59% in 1999. The highest value was 52.49% in 2000 and the lowest 21.53% in 2016.

Is the latest change in goods and services expense (% of expense) unusual for Angola?

In 2019, Angola's goods and services expense (% of expense) rose 7.03 percentage points on 2018 (from 22.33% to 29.36%). Across the 19 yearly changes before that (2000 to 2018), the average change was −1.33 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 6.15 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.4 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator GC.XPN.GSRV.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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