Botswana vs Vanuatu: Expense

Botswana

26.5%

in 2024

Vanuatu

26.6%

in 2023

Botswana rank

77th

Vanuatu rank

75th

Expense over time

Botswana
Vanuatu

How they compare

Vanuatu currently reports 26.6% against 26.5% in Botswana, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 18 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Botswana ahead.

Globally, Botswana ranks 77th and Vanuatu ranks 75th of 157 countries.

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Expense in Botswana
Expense in Vanuatu
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.