Hong Kong SAR, China | 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
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
Records
63
Source
Hong Kong SAR, China | General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$)
1960
1676192586.946 1961
1750898765.9694 1962
1933732309.3686 1963
2124429661.086 1964
2295685931.1278 1965
2553225653.5504 1966
2816663232.2116 1967
2973830179.0165 1968
3243602492.1563 1969
3408414808.1596 1970
3512719487.9363 1971
3740769929.1654 1972
4128936245.3188 1973
4506180605.4746 1974
4809046445.2871 1975
5105031452.821 1976
5551848672.6813 1977
6074573486.7247 1978
6688387413.7878 1979
7203576078.1928 1980
8724240011.7335 1981
9223701059.5021 1982
9813268244.2506 1983
10221421739.879 1984
10522321627.612 1985
11187687186.984 1986
11564822327.58 1987
12028022481.436 1988
12657564025.136 1989
13324895536.587 1990
14405404643.426 1991
16350495787.032 1992
16779073340.376 1993
17445858754.028 1994
18016967833.14 1995
18750486397.937 1996
19288501950.376 1997
19503992142.208 1998
20182136390.097 1999
20676136459.867 2000
21985351325.295 2001
22616203503.714 2002
23153782177.914 2003
23474669245.123 2004
22871668054.497 2005
23075690192.532 2006
23805167633.609 2007
24287262771.341 2008
24851381798.615 2009
25684508602.11 2010
26314705463.169 2011
27251481629.08 2012
27988495219.796 2013
28845977985.164 2014
29833650466.024 2015
30860205110.235 2016
31736145981.239 2017
33082058618.819 2018
34759015742.685 2019
37507853628.152 2020
39706224931.341 2021
42942728152.099 2022
Hong Kong SAR, China | 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
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
Records
63
Source