Summary information
Study title
IMF Government Finance Statistics, 1972-2023
Creator
International Monetary Fund
Study number / PID
4994 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-4994-9 (DOI)
Data access
Open
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Government Finance Statistics (GFS) database provides current and internationally comparable annual time series data on the finances and fiscal policies of IMF member governments from 1972 onwards. Topics covered include:
- deficit/surplus or total financing
- revenues or grants, expenditures
- lending minus repayments
- domestic financing
- foreign financing
- domestic debt or total debt, and foreign debt
Main Topics:
Topics covered include:
- finance
- economics
- financing
- funding
- revenue
- public expenditure
- payments
- government spending
- financial management
- grants
- debts
- public debt
- national debt
- public finance
- fiscal policy
- financial policy
- taxation
- bonds
- educational expenditure
- defence expenditure
- social welfare expenditure
- educational finance
- health care costs
- local finance
- social welfare finance
- national economy
- agricultural economics
- exchange rates
- gross domestic product
- population
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
Not availableCountry
Afghanistan, Multi-nation, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Channel Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Curacao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Europe, European Union Countries (1993-), Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany (October 1990-), Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent, Saotome, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Surinam, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (USA), Zambia, Zimbabwe
Time dimension
Time Series
Observations are annual.
Analysis unit
Administrative units (geographical/political)
Cross-national
National
Universe
Not availableSampling procedure
Not availableKind of data
Numeric
Data collection mode
Not availableAccess
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2004
Terms of data access
The depositor has specified that registration is not required.
Related publications
Not available