Dominican Republic | General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$)
General government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption) includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees). It also includes most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. Data are in constant 2015 prices, expressed in U.S. dollars. Development relevance: An economy's growth is measured by the change in the volume of its output or in the real incomes of its residents. The 2008 United Nations System of National Accounts (2008 SNA) offers three plausible indicators for calculating growth: the volume of gross domestic product (GDP), real gross domestic income, and real gross national income. The volume of GDP is the sum of value added, measured at constant prices, by households, government, and industries operating in the economy. GDP accounts for all domestic production, regardless of whether the income accrues to domestic or foreign institutions. Limitations and exceptions: Because policymakers have tended to focus on fostering the growth of output, and because data on production are easier to collect than data on spending, many countries generate their primary estimate of GDP using the production approach. Moreover, many countries do not estimate all the components of national expenditures but instead derive some of the main aggregates indirectly using GDP (based on the production approach) as the control total. Measures of growth in consumption and capital formation are subject to two kinds of inaccuracy. The first stems from the difficulty of measuring expenditures at current price levels. The second arises in deflating current price data to measure volume growth, where results depend on the relevance and reliability of the price indexes and weights used. Measuring price changes is more difficult for investment goods than for consumption goods because of the one-time nature of many investments and because the rate of technological progress in capital goods makes capturing change in quality difficult. (An example is computers - prices have fallen as quality has improved.) To obtain government consumption in constant prices, countries may deflate current values by applying a wage (price) index or extrapolate from the change in government employment. Neither technique captures improvements in productivity or changes in the quality of government services. Statistical concept and methodology: Gross domestic product (GDP) from the expenditure side is made up of household final consumption expenditure, general government final consumption expenditure, gross capital formation (private and public investment in fixed assets, changes in inventories, and net acquisitions of valuables), and net exports (exports minus imports) of goods and services. Such expenditures are recorded in purchaser prices and include net taxes on products.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Dominican Republic
Records
63
Source
Dominican Republic | General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$)
477873468.44277 1960
485476845.81553 1961
682785003.01947 1962
770984450.65643 1963
808241047.31895 1964
853861441.26364 1965
738831661.49718 1966
652492738.82789 1967
676616402.52208 1968
714875756.49464 1969
778521248.50087 1970
722889552.75203 1971
719341650.87938 1972
736304858.63435 1973
1010143754.0848 1974
811814457.86686 1975
609791507.8373 1976
685625672.68808 1977
793301333.0479 1978
963751199.4571 1979
1180070797.6672 1980
1503266259.7996 1981
1527256964.1821 1982
1572522410.4965 1983
1565649879.9726 1984
1634083461.8426 1985
1750868366.4797 1986
1350124126.2876 1987
1341161559.3267 1988
1501002958.8345 1989
1582485357.9673 1990
1598310199.405 1991
1901558681.8704 1992
2227722398.1553 1993
2513147051.7079 1994
2318665934.3346 1995
2518804876.3911 1996
2854993979.1439 1997
3079106527.6782 1998
3248853379.7822 1999
3401225675.5337 2000
3733400869.2184 2001
4051182365.8036 2002
3724551932.7712 2003
3959046326.6946 2004
4341414366.9957 2005
4810095776.9119 2006
5275028952.8109 2007
5419160757.9576 2008
5676346918.0155 2009
5953434416.6758 2010
5797334448.6615 2011
6177915831.339 2012
6565913318.9738 2013
6849230039.9535 2014
7321968248.1484 2015
7464687137.1868 2016
7526397727.1926 2017
7738443225.6793 2018
8229413530.0772 2019
8635361137.6535 2020
8640670240.1843 2021
8975425821.7202 2022
Dominican Republic | General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$)
General government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption) includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees). It also includes most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. Data are in constant 2015 prices, expressed in U.S. dollars. Development relevance: An economy's growth is measured by the change in the volume of its output or in the real incomes of its residents. The 2008 United Nations System of National Accounts (2008 SNA) offers three plausible indicators for calculating growth: the volume of gross domestic product (GDP), real gross domestic income, and real gross national income. The volume of GDP is the sum of value added, measured at constant prices, by households, government, and industries operating in the economy. GDP accounts for all domestic production, regardless of whether the income accrues to domestic or foreign institutions. Limitations and exceptions: Because policymakers have tended to focus on fostering the growth of output, and because data on production are easier to collect than data on spending, many countries generate their primary estimate of GDP using the production approach. Moreover, many countries do not estimate all the components of national expenditures but instead derive some of the main aggregates indirectly using GDP (based on the production approach) as the control total. Measures of growth in consumption and capital formation are subject to two kinds of inaccuracy. The first stems from the difficulty of measuring expenditures at current price levels. The second arises in deflating current price data to measure volume growth, where results depend on the relevance and reliability of the price indexes and weights used. Measuring price changes is more difficult for investment goods than for consumption goods because of the one-time nature of many investments and because the rate of technological progress in capital goods makes capturing change in quality difficult. (An example is computers - prices have fallen as quality has improved.) To obtain government consumption in constant prices, countries may deflate current values by applying a wage (price) index or extrapolate from the change in government employment. Neither technique captures improvements in productivity or changes in the quality of government services. Statistical concept and methodology: Gross domestic product (GDP) from the expenditure side is made up of household final consumption expenditure, general government final consumption expenditure, gross capital formation (private and public investment in fixed assets, changes in inventories, and net acquisitions of valuables), and net exports (exports minus imports) of goods and services. Such expenditures are recorded in purchaser prices and include net taxes on products.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Dominican Republic
Records
63
Source