Botswana vs Lower middle income: Goods and services expense
Goods and services expense over time
- Botswana
- Lower middle income
How they compare
Botswana currently reports 28.4% against 16.0% in Lower middle income, a difference of 12.4%.
That makes Botswana's figure about 1.8 times Lower middle income's.
Across all 13 years both countries report, Botswana has been ahead every year.
Botswana ranks 17th and Lower middle income ranks 18th of 154 countries.
Botswana has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Botswana | Lower middle income | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 31.0% | 17.7% | 13.3% | Botswana |
| 2010s | 28.1% | 17.8% | 10.3% | Botswana |
| 2020s | 22.3% | 15.9% | 6.4% | Botswana |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher goods and services expense, Botswana or Lower middle income?
- Botswana, at 28.4% against 16.0% in Lower middle income as of 2023.
- What is the difference in goods and services expense between Botswana and Lower middle income?
- 12.4%, with Botswana ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Botswana and Lower middle income?
- 13 years are reported by both, from 2009 to 2021.
- How do Botswana and Lower middle income rank globally for goods and services expense?
- Botswana ranks 17th and Lower middle income ranks 18th of 154 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF), published as Goods and services expense (% of expense). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
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.