Availability

For the purposes of distributing total government expenditures, the 04 Economic Affairs level is not used in any of the analysis. Instead, its 9 subcategories are used.

IMF database

The table below shows data in the form of percentage availability for each year in the individual available categories. This may help in deciding which indicators can be used as representative.

The previous table listed all 194 countries. For better interpretation, we can focus only on the 105 countries that have in IMF at least one available value.

Divisions - Highest level

Reviewing the data availability further, one can observe that by country, availability differs significantly in the coverage of years and reported areas of expenditure. The table below is revealed for countries with the coverage for the years from 2000 onward only: for the 25-year span, 0 countries have a full year coverage, 8 with exact 24 years and 32 with more than 22 years since 2000.

The following heatmaps illustrate the presence of missing data in government expenditure statistics across countries, years, and COFOG categories. These visualizations provide an overview of data completeness.

The first heatmap shows, for each country and year, how many COFOG categories (GF01_T to GF10_T) are missing from the dataset. Higher values indicate more extensive gaps in the government expenditure reporting across functional classifications.

The second heatmap displays how many years are missing for each COFOG function by country, revealing patterns of incomplete time coverage.

The final visualization consists of nine separate heatmaps, each representing a single COFOG category. For each category, the heatmap shows missing data across countries and years. This layout enables direct comparison of data completeness across functional areas of government expenditure.

This breakdown highlights which functional classifications tend to be more consistently reported and where reporting gaps are concentrated.

Groups of Economic affairs division

As we mentioned before, for representation of the 04 Economic Affairs division is used its nine groups mentioned below.

Groups of Economic affairs division
GF041_T General economic, commercial and labour affairs
GF042_T Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
GF043_T Fuel and energy
GF044_T Mining, manufacturing and construction
GF045_T Transport
GF0460_T Communication (CS)
GF047_T Other industries
GF048_T R&D Economic affairs
GF0490_T Economic affairs n.e.c. (CS)

Same as for the highest levels we can do the similar analyses.

Since 2000, the data availability is as follows:

As in the previous case, the following heatmaps illustrate the presence of missing data in government expenditure statistics across countries, years, and COFOG categories. They provide a visual overview of data completeness.

The first heatmap shows, for each country and year, how many COFOG categories (GF041_T to GF0490_T) are missing from the dataset. Higher values indicate more extensive gaps in the government expenditure reporting across functional classifications.

The second heatmap shows how many years of data are missing for each COFOG subcategory under the 04 Economic Affairs level of function, by country, revealing patterns of incomplete time coverage.

The final visualization consists of nine separate heatmaps, each representing a single COFOG subcategory under the 04 Economic Affairs level of function. Each heatmap displays missing data across countries and years, allowing for direct comparison of data completeness across functional areas of government expenditure.

This breakdown highlights which functional classifications are more consistently reported and where reporting gaps are concentrated.