Guatemala | 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
Republic of Guatemala
Records
63
Source
Guatemala | General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$)
1960 608707643.44625
1961 636237078.99951
1962 564354524.77084
1963 558236855.04132
1964 611001710.88058
1965 650766538.102
1966 695119604.59632
1967 738707981.91782
1968 743296221.1767
1969 861825961.51511
1970 960473314.33334
1971 889355449.24945
1972 983414562.80881
1973 984179251.95359
1974 1030826464.1609
1975 1135591460.6251
1976 1261768275.0942
1977 1346650884.0382
1978 1431533466.8567
1979 1521004315.0736
1980 1703004820.2256
1981 1778710924.6666
1982 1756534391.3212
1983 1758063795.7504
1984 1804711007.9297
1985 1766475585.1795
1986 1857475863.7689
1987 1987476228.338
1988 2087652985.5294
1989 2167182613.9448
1990 2176359118.49
1991 2148829626.17
1992 2393536191.5371
1993 2595387769.1643
1994 2672310525.8492
1995 2707664493.3024
1996 2707334915.277
1997 2874399155.0866
1998 3153265230.5034
1999 3393836280.2
2000 3660418092.6825
2001 3856974264.9249
2002 3853535782.5178
2003 3797538594.0502
2004 3545303087.8004
2005 3604185619.5535
2006 3810053724.2738
2007 4125368307.7986
2008 4593166087.1516
2009 5251536715.311
2010 5660769621.0436
2011 5894783565.7328
2012 6238978198.5321
2013 6591157056.0272
2014 6830835670.3582
2015 6895258343.9312
2016 6684057054.7775
2017 6821670534.8665
2018 7341843173.4621
2019 7507599394.3479
2020 7584417620.5843
2021 7955104537.7702
2022 8528032364.3306

Guatemala | 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
Republic of Guatemala
Records
63
Source