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Collection: Government Overall Fiscal Position (FY1997 to FY2023)

Dataset: Government Total Expenditure

Economy

Government Total Expenditure

Last updated: 21 Feb 2025, 15:01 SGT

MOF (Ministry of Finance)

Total Expenditure comprises Operating and Development Expenditure. Operating Expenditure refers to Expenditure on Manpower, Other Operating Expenditure Grants, Subventions and Capital Injections to Organisations, and Transfers. Agency Fees on Land Sales, Investment Expenses, SINGA-related Outlays and Net Disbursements of Advances are excluded. Development Expenditure excludes land-related expenditure from FY2001.

Data explorer

GovernmentTotalExpenditure.csv (1.2K rows, 84.5 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%
19973.4%
19983.4%
19993.4%
20003.4%
(Null)0.0%
Actual93.1%
Revised3.4%
Estimated3.4%
(Null)0.0%
Social Development40.0%
Government Administration25.0%
Economic Development20.0%
Security and External Relations15.0%
(Null)0.0%
Manpower10.0%
Communications and Information9.7%
Law5.0%
Health5.0%
(Null)0.0%
Operating50.0%
Development50.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
032.9%
0.00125.8%
0.00213.4%
0.0037.0%
2016ActualEconomic DevelopmentTransportOperating9530.002
2017ActualEconomic DevelopmentTransportOperating16070.003
2018ActualEconomic DevelopmentTransportOperating19000.004
2019ActualEconomic DevelopmentTransportOperating19450.004
2020ActualEconomic DevelopmentTransportOperating29450.006
2021ActualEconomic DevelopmentTransportOperating37380.006
2022ActualEconomic DevelopmentTransportOperating36920.005
2023ActualEconomic DevelopmentTransportOperating25390.004
2024RevisedEconomic DevelopmentTransportOperating25360.003
2025EstimatedEconomic DevelopmentTransportOperating27980.004

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Financial Yearfinancial_yearText--
Actual Revised Estimatedactual_revised_estimatedText--
SectorsectorText--
MinistryministryText--
TypetypeText--
Amount In Millionsamount_in_millionsNumeric--
Percent Of Gdppercent_of_gdpNumeric--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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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 (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 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)