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Primary government expenditures as a proportion of original approved budget (%) (World Bank WDI)

World Bank indicators. Per cent, annual.

Data source: World Bank, wdi_lka.zip (8 Oct 2026)

Macro Lab · LK.SOC.WDI.GF_XPD_BUDG_ZS.A · CC BY 4.0

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  • Source World Bank, compiled by Macro Lab
  • Unit Per cent
  • Date range 2007 – 2023
  • Last checked 8 Oct 2026

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Primary government expenditures as a proportion of original approved budget (%) (World Bank WDI)
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World Bank: World Development Indicators and International Debt Statistics (World Bank)
Source page
https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka
Licence
Source: The World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Notes
World Bank, World Development Indicators, GF.XPD.BUDG.ZS, Sri Lanka. Data source (as the World Bank gives it): Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA), World Bank (WB), uri: https://www.pefa.org/node/5239, note: The raw data collected in order to calculate this indicator are the initially Approved and Executed Budgets. Budget Laws of countries is the usual source of the approved budget of countries. The end-of year fiscal reports (budget execution reports) are the sources of the actual spending. This data is typically obtained from websites of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) or the national Parliament, or data are collected through communication with the MoF. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators, https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka.

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