Botswana vs Samoa: Expense

Botswana

26.5%

in 2024

Samoa

26.7%

in 2023

Botswana rank

77th

Samoa rank

74th

Expense over time

Botswana
Samoa

How they compare

Samoa currently reports 26.7% against 26.5% in Botswana, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 12 shared years of data; in 2012 it was Botswana ahead.

Globally, Botswana ranks 77th and Samoa ranks 74th of 157 countries.

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Expense in Botswana
Expense in Samoa
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Expense (% of GDP)
Unit: % of GDP
Source: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 183 places, 5,211 data points, 1972–2024
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

Expense is a decrease in net worth resulting from a transaction. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.