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Sri Lanka: Central government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1947–2008 · 62 observations · cgovexp

2008
1.68 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2007
+38.0%year on year
Average growth, 1998–2008
+19.2%a year

Central government expenditure

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Local currency

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20081,682,167
20071,218,988
2006909,131
2005680,476
2004549,968
2003476,409
2002451,553
2001421,236
2000368,598
1999306,782

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Sri Lanka documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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