Jamaica Government Expense

Indicator note: Expense is a decrease in net worth resulting from a transaction. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.

Source organization: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF); World Development Indicators, World Bank (WB); National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

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Jamaica recorded 27,47 percent of GDP in 2020, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2019, the government expense increased by 3,49.

Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.

Across 6 observations from 2015 to 2020, the average was 25,08; the minimum was 23,98 in 2019 and the maximum was 27,47 in 2020.

Jamaica ranks 73 out of 161 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

The latest value is above the available average for Latin America & Caribbean.

It is also above the available average for the Upper middle income group.

Ongoing fiscal expenditure intensity.