IDA only: Goods and services expense (% of expense)

Key figures

Over five years it is down 3.83 percentage points from 20.69% in 2016. Since 2010 it is down 2.37 percentage points from 19.23% in 2010. The World Bank has no value for 2 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

From 2012 to 2021 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.52 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 41% of the movement over 9 observed years.

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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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 10 values

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

• Afghanistan — 54.78% (2017)
• Bahrain — 11.52% (2020)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 4.27% (2015)
• Israel — 13.62% (2023)
• Jordan — 9.79% (2023)
• Lebanon — 4.03% (2021)
• Malta — 19.39% (2023)
• Morocco — 8.97% (2023)
• Saudi Arabia — 27.41% (2023)
• United Arab Emirates — 28.94% (2023)

More public sector data for IDA only

• Military expenditure (current USD) — 20.11 billion (2025)
• Military expenditure (% of GDP) — 1.2% (2025)
• Arms imports (SIPRI trend indicator values) — 537 million (2025)
• Armed forces personnel, total — 3.12 million (2020)
• Armed forces personnel (% of total labor force) — 0.72% (2020)
• Military expenditure (% of general government expenditure) — 7.35% (2025)
• CPIA business regulatory environment rating (1=low to 6=high) — 2.88 (2025)
• CPIA debt policy rating (1=low to 6=high) — 3.05 (2025)
• CPIA economic management cluster average (1=low to 6=high) — 3.09 (2025)

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Questions people ask

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

16.86% in 2021, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2010?

It is down 2.37 percentage points from 19.23% in 2010. The highest value was 22.89% in 2012 and the lowest 16.06% in 2020.

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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