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Subsidies, payable, Ratio of this level of government's expenditure on this item to total general government expenditure on this, Percent (Central government) by country

The Fiscal Decentralization dataset includes fiscal decentralization indicators for a sample of IMF member countries. The following indicators are included in the dataset: Revenue and Expenditure Decentralization Shares; Transfer dependency and Vertical Fiscal Imbalances; Deficit and Debt; Allocation of...

Countries reporting
75
Highest
1
Afghanistan
Lowest
0
Costa Rica
Median
0.8255
Years covered
31
1990–2020
Data points
1,429

What the numbers show

Subsidies, payable, Ratio of this level of government's expenditure on this item to total general government expenditure on this, Percent (Central government) is currently reported for 75 countries. The highest value is 1 in Afghanistan; the lowest is 0 in Costa Rica.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.8255, and the mean is 0.7333.

Over the past decade 30 countries rose and 33 fell. The largest increase was in Canada (up 249.8%), and the largest decrease in Costa Rica (down 100.0%).

Subsidies, payable, Ratio of this level of government's expenditure: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Afghanistan 1 2017 unchanged flat
1 Malta 1 2020 unchanged flat
1 Marshall Islands 1 2018 unchanged flat
1 Kiribati 1 2020 unchanged flat
1 Palau 1 2019 unchanged flat
1 Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 2009 unchanged flat
1 Ireland 1 2020 unchanged flat
1 Honduras 1 2015 up 0.0% flat
1 Senegal 1 2020 unchanged flat
1 El Salvador 1 2020 unchanged rising
1 Cyprus 1 2020 unchanged flat
1 Thailand 1 2020 unchanged flat
13 United States of America 0.9992 2020 up 2.8% rising
14 Armenia 0.997 2020 up 15.3% falling
15 Mauritius 0.9967 2020 up 0.0% flat
16 Kenya 0.9868 2020 up 0.1% flat
17 Rwanda 0.984 2020 down 0.9% flat
18 Cape Verde 0.9835 2016 up 19.4% rising
19 Indonesia 0.979 2020 down 1.8% flat
20 Iceland 0.9772 2020 up 1.1% rising
21 Azerbaijan 0.9756 2019 down 1.6% flat
22 Luxembourg 0.9706 2020 down 0.3% flat
23 Greece 0.9567 2020 down 4.3% falling
24 Guatemala 0.9566 2020 up 50.8% rising
25 Slovenia 0.9347 2020 up 7.1% falling
26 North Macedonia 0.9337 2020 up 9.8% rising
27 Uzbekistan 0.9292 2020 — volatile
28 Republic of Moldova 0.9199 2020 up 35.3% rising
29 Austria 0.9116 2020 up 29.6% rising
30 Serbia 0.9018 2020 up 24.9% rising
31 Finland 0.8851 2020 up 0.4% falling
32 Mexico 0.8765 2020 down 7.7% falling
33 Norway 0.8709 2020 up 2.8% flat
34 Poland 0.8693 2020 up 10.9% flat
35 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.8497 2020 up 22.9% flat
36 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.833 2020 down 3.9% falling
37 Australia 0.8313 2020 up 61.5% rising
38 Brazil 0.8255 2020 down 10.0% falling
39 Denmark 0.8215 2020 up 54.2% falling
40 Hungary 0.8114 2020 up 1.4% falling
41 Colombia 0.7867 2020 down 11.7% flat
42 Slovakia 0.78 2020 down 7.9% falling
43 France 0.7778 2020 up 23.8% rising
44 Sweden 0.7742 2020 up 15.8% falling
45 Latvia 0.7695 2020 down 8.1% falling
46 Mongolia 0.7389 2020 up 145.6% falling
47 Canada 0.7339 2020 up 249.8% falling
48 Lithuania 0.7223 2020 down 18.4% flat
49 Bulgaria 0.7208 2020 down 23.8% falling
50 Israel 0.6885 2020 down 31.2% falling
51 Czechia 0.6644 2020 up 43.8% falling
52 Türkiye 0.6454 2020 down 35.3% falling
53 Italy 0.5848 2020 up 21.1% rising
54 South Africa 0.5844 2020 down 30.1% falling
55 Georgia 0.5804 2020 up 12.4% falling
56 Russian Federation 0.5786 2020 up 95.9% rising
57 Chile 0.5549 2020 down 41.0% falling
58 Portugal 0.4985 2020 down 26.9% falling
59 Ukraine 0.4795 2020 down 35.8% falling
60 Kyrgyzstan 0.477 2019 down 18.6% falling
61 Albania 0.4695 2020 down 37.4% falling
62 Belarus 0.4363 2020 down 16.6% falling
63 Croatia 0.393 2020 down 50.5% falling
64 Netherlands 0.3638 2020 down 36.7% falling
65 Belgium 0.3264 2020 down 5.5% falling
66 Romania 0.3155 2020 down 48.7% falling
67 Japan 0.3143 2020 down 23.3% falling
68 Estonia 0.2979 2020 down 54.4% falling
69 Spain 0.277 2020 up 18.6% flat
70 Korea 0.26 2020 down 13.0% falling
71 Kazakhstan 0.2331 2020 down 37.7% rising
72 Switzerland 0.2205 2020 up 4.8% falling
73 Germany 0.18 2020 down 48.9% falling
74 United Arab Emirates 0.0003 2020 down 98.4% volatile
75 Costa Rica 0 2014 down 100.0% volatile

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Indicator
Subsidies, payable, Ratio of this level of government's expenditure on this item to total general government expenditure on this, Percent (Central government)
Source
International Monetary Fund
Licence
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Coverage
75 places, 1,429 data points, 1990–2020
Last refreshed

The Fiscal Decentralization dataset includes fiscal decentralization indicators for a sample of IMF member countries. The following indicators are included in the dataset: Revenue and Expenditure Decentralization Shares; Transfer dependency and Vertical Fiscal Imbalances; Deficit and Debt; Allocation of expenditure (economic classification); Allocation of expenditure (functional classification); Allocation of non-Tax Revenues; and Allocation of Taxes.