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Collection: Government Overall Fiscal Position (FY1997 to FY2023)

Dataset: Government Total Expenditure

Economy

Government Total Expenditure

Last updated: 20 Feb 2026, 17:14 SGT

MOF (Ministry of Finance)

Total Expenditure comprises Operating and Development Expenditure.

Operating expenditures are expenses incurred to maintain the operations and regular activities of the Government, and Government grants and transfers. They include expenditure on manpower, other operating expenditure, grants, transfers and capital injections to Statutory Boards and other organisations, and other transfers. Agency fees on land sales, investment expenses, SINGA-related outlays and net disbursements of advances are excluded.

Development expenditures are expenses that represent a longer-term investment and/or are incurred on capital assets in respect of or in connection with the economic development or general welfare of Singapore. Examples of spending areas are on the acquisition of heavy equipment and capital assets, e.g. buildings and roads. Land-related expenditure (from FY2001) and net lending are excluded.

Figures may not add up due to rounding.

Data explorer

GovernmentTotalExpenditure.csv (1.2K rows, 87.7 KB)

Financial Year Text	Actual Revised Estimated Text	Sector Text	Ministry Text	Type Text	Amount In Millions Numeric	Percent Of Gdp Numeric
(Null)0.0% 19973.3% 19983.3% 19993.3% 20003.3%	(Null)0.0% Actual93.3% Revised3.3% Estimated3.3%	(Null)0.0% Social Development40.0% Government Administration25.0% Economic Development20.0% Security and External Relations15.0%	(Null)0.0% Digital Development and Information15.0% Manpower10.0% Law5.0% Health5.0%	(Null)0.0% Operating50.0% Development50.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% 032.8% 0.00125.6% 0.00213.1% 0.0037.0%
1997	Actual	Economic Development	Digital Development and Information	Operating	435	0.003
1997	Actual	Economic Development	Manpower	Operating	89	0.001
1997	Actual	Economic Development	Trade and Industry	Operating	5	0
1997	Actual	Economic Development	Transport	Operating	53	0
1997	Actual	Government Administration	Digital Development and Information	Operating	0	0
1997	Actual	Government Administration	Finance	Operating	0	0
1997	Actual	Government Administration	Law	Operating	972	0.006
1997	Actual	Government Administration	Organs of State	Operating	441	0.003
1997	Actual	Government Administration	Prime Minister's Office	Operating	39	0
1997	Actual	Security and External Relations	Defence	Operating	150	0.001

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Financial Year	financial_year	Text	-	-
Actual Revised Estimated	actual_revised_estimated	Text	-	-
Sector	sector	Text	-	-
Ministry	ministry	Text	-	-
Type	type	Text	-	-
Amount In Millions	amount_in_millions	Numeric	-	-
Percent Of Gdp	percent_of_gdp	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_00f95040967791729d51bd7cd6af2355"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Finance. (2022). Government Total Expenditure (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 1, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_00f95040967791729d51bd7cd6af2355/view

About this dataset

Contact

mof_qsm@mof.gov.sg

Created on

03 Mar 2022

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOF (Ministry of Finance)