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Government Total Expenditure

Updated 21 days ago

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%
1997ActualGovernment AdministrationCommunications and InformationDevelopment00
1998ActualGovernment AdministrationCommunications and InformationDevelopment00
1999ActualGovernment AdministrationCommunications and InformationDevelopment00
2000ActualGovernment AdministrationCommunications and InformationDevelopment00
2001ActualGovernment AdministrationCommunications and InformationDevelopment00
2002ActualGovernment AdministrationCommunications and InformationDevelopment00
2003ActualGovernment AdministrationCommunications and InformationDevelopment00
2004ActualGovernment AdministrationCommunications and InformationDevelopment00
2005ActualGovernment AdministrationCommunications and InformationDevelopment00
2006ActualGovernment AdministrationCommunications and InformationDevelopment00

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Description
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SectorsectorText--
MinistryministryText--
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Amount In Millionsamount_in_millionsNumeric--
Percent Of Gdppercent_of_gdpNumeric--
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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 March 13, 2025 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)