Interest payments have grown much faster than other key public expenditures

Nominal change of public expenditure categories between 2010–2012 and 2020–2022, percentage

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Source: UN Global Crisis Response Group – technical team calculations, based on IMF World Economic Outlook (April 2024), IMF Investment and capital stock database and World Bank World Development Indicators database.

Note: Unlike other sectors, investment figures are based on comparisons between 2010–2012 and 2019–2021

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