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This document explains the process undertaken to update the OECD General Government expenditures. GovTotalOutlays%GDP - Government total outlays (% of GDP), including forecast up to 2017.

 Data Source: data was obtained from http://www.oecd.org/eco/outlook/economicoutlookannextables.htm. The main source was from the Fiscal balances and public indebtedness Annex Table 25. This data was compared with data from https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm which also contains historical data from total government expenditures negligible variances were identified.

Data from the outlook series was then added from 1998-2017. The current series in IFs goes from 1993 to 2013. This was a simple update that replaced 1998-2013 with more refined and current data and added 2014-2017 forecasts to the series.

 

Note: Gross debt data are not always comparable across countries due to different definitions or treatment of debt components. Maastricht debt for European Union countries is shown in Annex Table 34.

Financial liabilities are measured at market value. For more details, see Sources & Methods of the OECD Economic Outlook (http://www.oecd.org/eco/sources-and-methods.htm).

1.  Includes the debt of the Belgium National Railways Company (SNCB) from 2005 onwards.

2.  Includes the debt of the Japan Railway Settlement Corporation and the National Forest Special Account from 1998 onwards.

3.  Consolidated data on SNA 2008 basis are not available.

Source:

OECD Economic Outlook 98 database.