Total Expenditure (highest government level) — Value US$ by country
The Statistics Division of FAO collects annually data on Government Expenditure on Agriculture through a questionnaire, which was developed in partnership with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF is the responsible institution for the Government Finance Statistics (GFS) methodology and annually collects...
What the numbers show
Total Expenditure (highest government level) — Value US$ is currently reported for 5 countries. The highest value is 781,451 million USD in Australia and New Zealand; the lowest is 872.12 million USD in Micronesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 13,588 million USD, and the mean is 187,204 million USD.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 896.
Total Expenditure (highest government level) — Value US$: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia and New Zealand | 781,451 million USD | 2024 | up 29.8% | rising |
| 2 | Caribbean | 139,235 million USD | 2024 | up 28.6% | rising |
| 3 | Melanesia | 13,588 million USD | 2024 | up 17.0% | rising |
| 4 | Polynesia | 873.23 million USD | 2024 | up 44.1% | rising |
| 5 | Micronesia | 872.12 million USD | 2024 | up 84.5% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 39.55 million million USD
- Northern America and Europe 24.81 million million USD
- Americas 14.10 million million USD
- Europe 12.82 million million USD
- Northern America 11.99 million million USD
- Asia 11.22 million million USD
- European Union (27) 9.56 million million USD
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 8.41 million million USD
- Eastern Asia 7.62 million million USD
- Western Europe 5.67 million million USD
- Northern Europe 2.84 million million USD
- Southern Europe 2.38 million million USD
About this data
The Statistics Division of FAO collects annually data on Government Expenditure on Agriculture through a questionnaire, which was developed in partnership with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF is the responsible institution for the Government Finance Statistics (GFS) methodology and annually collects GFS data, including Expenditure by Functions of Government (COFOG). The Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG) is an international classification developed by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and published by the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD), with the aim of categorise governments' functions according to their purposes. The FAO questionnaire aligns with Table 7 of the IMF GFS questionnaire, replicates the relevant aggregates and drills down to request additional detail related to Agriculture. The FAO dataset consists of a time series, from 2001 onwards, of Total Government Expenditure and expenditure in: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting, along with its three disaggregated subsectors of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing; and Environmental Protection. In addition, expenditure in each detailed function are further disaggregated into Recurrent and Capital expenditure. Additional indicators include the Agriculture Share of Government Expenditure, and the Agriculture Orientation Index (ratio between the Agriculture Share of Government Expenditure and the Agriculture Value Added as Share of GDP). Data are reported for the highest level of government available (Consolidated general government, consolidated central government or budgetary central government) and are available for about 100 countries on a regular basis.