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Government Expenditure by Type

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Government Expenditure by Type

Last updated: 18 Feb 2025, 17:55 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

GovernmentExpenditurebyType.csv (232 rows, 18.4 KB)

Financial Year
Text
Actual Revised Estimated
Text
Type
Text
Category
Text
Class
Text
Amount In Million
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
19973.4%
19983.4%
19993.4%
20003.4%
(Null)0.0%
Actual93.1%
Revised3.4%
Estimated3.4%
(Null)0.0%
Operating75.0%
Development25.0%
(Null)0.0%
Transfers37.5%
Running Cost37.5%
Development Expenditure25.0%
(Null)0.0%
Social Transfers12.5%
Government Development12.5%
Expenditure on Manpower12.5%
Other Operating Expenditure12.5%
(Null)0.0%
1997ActualDevelopmentDevelopment ExpenditureGovernment Development5326
1998ActualDevelopmentDevelopment ExpenditureGovernment Development6981
1999ActualDevelopmentDevelopment ExpenditureGovernment Development6369
2000ActualDevelopmentDevelopment ExpenditureGovernment Development5464
2001ActualDevelopmentDevelopment ExpenditureGovernment Development4503
2002ActualDevelopmentDevelopment ExpenditureGovernment Development3962
2003ActualDevelopmentDevelopment ExpenditureGovernment Development4221
2004ActualDevelopmentDevelopment ExpenditureGovernment Development4349
2005ActualDevelopmentDevelopment ExpenditureGovernment Development3522
2006ActualDevelopmentDevelopment ExpenditureGovernment Development2760

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Financial Yearfinancial_yearText--
Actual Revised Estimatedactual_revised_estimatedText--
TypetypeText--
CategorycategoryText--
ClassclassText--
Amount In Millionamount_in_millionNumeric--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_6a804a6860b5c51af08df679a71bc190"
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. (2016). Government Expenditure by Type (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 11, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_6a804a6860b5c51af08df679a71bc190/view

About this dataset

Contact

mof_qsm@mof.gov.sg

Created on

24 Mar 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOF (Ministry of Finance)