Table A3. Egypt’s public expenditure by...

Table A3.

Egypt’s public expenditure by functional classification: Relative shares in total public expenditure and in GDP

	2014/ 2015		2015/2016		2016/2017		2017/2018		2018/2019		Period average
Functional sector/FY	% of total exp.	% of GDP	% of total exp.	% of GDP	% of total exp.	% of GDP	% of total exp.	% of GDP	% of total exp.	% of GDP	% of total exp.	% of GDP
General and public services	34.21	10.9	37.12	12.0	39.03	11.2	40.94	11.4	47.29	12.8	39.72	11.7
Defense and national security	4.98	1.6	5.00	1.6	4.84	1.4	4.30	1.2	4.17	1.1	4.65	1.4
Public order and public safety	4.94	1.6	5.15	1.7	5.21	1.5	4.56	1.3	4.33	1.2	4.84	1.4
Economic affairs	4.45	1.4	4.84	1.6	4.47	1.3	4.45	1.2	4.30	1.2	4.50	1.3
Environment protection	0.21	0.1	0.26	0.1	0.20	0.1	0.16	0.0	0.15	0.0	0.20	0.1
Housing and public utilities	2.78	0.9	2.93	0.9	8.07	2.3	4.71	1.3	3.75	1.0	4.45	1.3
Health	5.37	1.7	5.20	1.7	5.02	1.4	4.55	1.3	4.34	1.2	4.90	1.5
Youth, culture and religious affairs	3.59	1.1	3.54	1.1	3.27	0.9	2.57	0.7	2.48	0.7	3.09	0.9
Education	11.95	3.8	11.48	3.7	10.67	3.0	8.87	2.5	8.12	2.2	10.22	3.0
Social protection	27.53	8.8	24.48	7.9	19.22	5.5	24.90	6.9	21.06	5.7	23.44	7.0
Total public expenditure (LE million)	789,431		864,564		974,794		1,207,138		1,424,020		1,051,989

	2014/ 2015		2015/2016		2016/2017		2017/2018		2018/2019		Period average
Functional sector/FY	% of total exp.	% of GDP	% of total exp.	% of GDP	% of total exp.	% of GDP	% of total exp.	% of GDP	% of total exp.	% of GDP	% of total exp.	% of GDP
General and public services	34.21	10.9	37.12	12.0	39.03	11.2	40.94	11.4	47.29	12.8	39.72	11.7
Defense and national security	4.98	1.6	5.00	1.6	4.84	1.4	4.30	1.2	4.17	1.1	4.65	1.4
Public order and public safety	4.94	1.6	5.15	1.7	5.21	1.5	4.56	1.3	4.33	1.2	4.84	1.4
Economic affairs	4.45	1.4	4.84	1.6	4.47	1.3	4.45	1.2	4.30	1.2	4.50	1.3
Environment protection	0.21	0.1	0.26	0.1	0.20	0.1	0.16	0.0	0.15	0.0	0.20	0.1
Housing and public utilities	2.78	0.9	2.93	0.9	8.07	2.3	4.71	1.3	3.75	1.0	4.45	1.3
Health	5.37	1.7	5.20	1.7	5.02	1.4	4.55	1.3	4.34	1.2	4.90	1.5
Youth, culture and religious affairs	3.59	1.1	3.54	1.1	3.27	0.9	2.57	0.7	2.48	0.7	3.09	0.9
Education	11.95	3.8	11.48	3.7	10.67	3.0	8.87	2.5	8.12	2.2	10.22	3.0
Social protection	27.53	8.8	24.48	7.9	19.22	5.5	24.90	6.9	21.06	5.7	23.44	7.0
Total public expenditure (LE million)	789,431		864,564		974,794		1,207,138		1,424,020		1,051,989

Note: Table is developed by the authors based on the State’s General Budget estimates published by MoF and the GDP (at factor cost) preliminary data published by the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development

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