Expenditure on general public services (% of total gen. gov. exp.)

QoG code: gfs_gps

Total expenditure on general public services, as the percentage of general government expenditure.

Dataset
IMF GFS - Expenditure by Functions of Government (COFOG)
Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-11-05
Last updated by source
2025-11-05

Categories

Welfare Public Economy

Find this variable in

Standard Cross-section - 2026 Standard Time-series - 2026 Original dataset
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section 69
Standard time-series 82
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 1972-2023

Country coverage

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  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Andorra
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • China
  • Costa Rica
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus (1975-)
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Dominican Republic
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France (1963-)
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Guatemala
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Korea, South
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Maldives
  • Malta
  • Mauritius
  • Moldova
  • Mongolia
  • Myanmar
  • Namibia
  • Nauru
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • San Marino
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Singapore
  • Slovenia
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Tajikistan
  • Thailand
  • Timor-Leste
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Uzbekistan
  • Yemen

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1972 to 2023.