Cameroon vs Gabon: Government consumption

Cameroon
435.80 billion current LCU
in 2007
Gabon
532.93 billion current LCU
in 2008
Cameroon rank
15th
Gabon rank
12th

Government consumption over time

  • Cameroon
  • Gabon
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How they compare

Gabon currently reports 532.93 billion current LCU against 435.80 billion current LCU in Cameroon, a difference of 97.14 billion current LCU.

That makes Gabon's figure about 1.2 times Cameroon's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 24 shared years of data; in 1984 it was Cameroon ahead.

Cameroon ranks 15th and Gabon ranks 12th of 51 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Government consumption (current LCU)
Unit
current LCU
Source
World Bank country economists
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
51 places, 1,368 data points, 1966–2011
Last refreshed

Current expenditure on goods and services comprises payments of wages and salaries in cash to employees (including the armed forces) before deduction of withholding taxes and employees' contributions to social security and pension funds, as well as employers' contributions to superannuation schemes outside government, and other purchases of goods and services (wages and salaries in kind, office supplies and maintenance charges etc.). Data are in current local currency.