436

=

APPENDICES

APPENDIX 9

(Chapter 5: The Economy)

Government Expenditure and the Economy

$ Million

Revised

Actual

Actual

Actual

Actual

Estimate

1991-92

1992-93

1993-94

1994-95

1995-96

Government Expenditure (see Appendix 10)

Operating Expenditure

71,677

85,024_-

96,958

106,620

122,818

Less grant to Lotteries Fund

(2,300)

grant to Regional Council

71,677

82,724

96,958

106,620

122,818

Capital Expenditure

Less debt repayment

18,720

22,247

38,246

38,950

38,823

(1,200)

(2,400)

18,720

22,247

37,046

36,550

38,823

Total Government Expenditure

90,397

104,971

134,004

143,170

161,641

Add other public sector bodies

18,025

18,522

21,203

22,780

33,604

-Total Public Expenditure (1)

108,422

123,493

155,207

165,950

195,245

-

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at

current market prices (calendar year)

668,512

779,335

897,463

1,016,567*

1,111,391*

Growth in GDP:

Nominal terms

14.8%

16.6%

15.2%

13.3%*

9.3%*

Real terms

5.1%

6.3%

6.1%

5.4%*

4.6%*

Growth in Public Expenditure:

Nominal terms

13.9%

13.9%

25.7%

6.9%

17.7%*

Real terms

3.3%

3.7%

15.2%

-2.2%

8.3%*

Public Expenditure as percentage of GDP

16.2%

15.8%

17.3%

16.3%

17.6%*

Notes: (1) The public expenditure comprises expenditure by the trading funds, the Housing Authority, the Urban Council and the Regional Council, and expenditure financed by the Government's statutory funds and all expenditure charged to the General Revenue Account. Expenditure by institutions in the private or quasi-private sector is included to the extent of their subventions. The payments of government departments which are wholly or partly financed by charges raised on a commercial basis are also included (e.g. airport, waterworks). But not included is expenditure by those organisations, including statutory organisations, in which the Government has only an equity position, such as the Mass Transit Railway Corporation and the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation. Similarly, equity payments are excluded as they do not reflect the actual consumption of resources by the Government.

* The estimates are subject to revisions later on as more data become available.

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