The IMF’s Fiscal Decentralization Dataset compiles indicators widely used by academics and policymakers to assess recent trends, conduct benchmark analysis, and identify the causes, and consequences of fiscal decentralization for a global sample of IMF members.

[FREQ] Frequency

[A] Annual

[REF_AREA] Reference Area

[AE] United Arab Emirates
[AF] Afghanistan
[AL] Albania
[AM] Armenia
[AT] Austria
[AU] Australia
[AZ] Azerbaijan
[BA] Bosnia and Herzegovina
[BE] Belgium
[BG] Bulgaria
[BR] Brazil
[BY] Belarus
[CA] Canada
[CH] Switzerland
[CL] Chile
[CN] China
[CO] Colombia
[CR] Costa Rica
[CV] Cabo Verde
[CY] Cyprus
[CZ] Czech Republic
[DE] Germany
[DK] Denmark
[EE] Estonia
[ES] Spain
[FI] Finland
[FR] France
[GB] United Kingdom
[GE] Georgia
[GR] Greece
[GT] Guatemala
[HN] Honduras
[HR] Croatia
[HU] Hungary
[ID] Indonesia
[IE] Ireland
[IL] Israel
[IR] Iran, Islamic Republic of
[IS] Iceland
[IT] Italy
[JP] Japan
[KE] Kenya
[KG] Kyrgyzstan
[KH] Cambodia
[KI] Kiribati
[KR] Korea, Republic of
[KZ] Kazakhstan
[LT] Lithuania
[LU] Luxembourg
[LV] Latvia
[MD] Moldova, Republic of
[MH] Marshall islands
[MK] North Macedonia, Republic of
[MM] Myanmar
[MN] Mongolia
[MT] Malta
[MU] Mauritius
[MX] Mexico
[NA] Namibia
[NL] Netherlands
[NO] Norway
[NP] Nepal
[NZ] New Zealand
[PE] Peru
[PL] Poland
[PT] Portugal
[PW] Palau
[PY] Paraguay
[RO] Romania
[RS] Serbia
[RU] Russian Federation
[RW] Rwanda
[SE] Sweden
[SI] Slovenia
[SK] Slovakia
[SN] Senegal
[SO] Somalia
[SV] El Salvador
[TH] Thailand
[TN] Tunisia
[TR] Turkey
[UA] Ukraine
[UG] Uganda
[US] United States
[UZ] Uzbekistan
[ZA] South Africa

[INDICATOR] Indicator

[cfc] Consumption of fixed capital, share of general government
[comp] Compensation of employees, share of general government
[cs] Capital spending, share of general government
[debt] Debt, share of own revenue
[defense] Defense, share of general government
[deficit] Deficit, share of own spending
[ea] Economic affairs, share of general government
[edu] Education, share of general government
[ep] Environmental protection, share of general government
[exc] Excise, share of general government
[gps] General public services, share of general government
[gs] Goods and Services, share of general government
[hca] Housing & community ammenities, share of general government
[health] Health, share of general government
[interest] Interest, share of general government
[ipcg] Income, Profits, Capital Gains, share of general government
[it] International Trade, share of general government
[oe] Other expenses, share of general government
[or] Other revenue, share of general government
[ot] Other Taxes, share of general government
[payroll] Payroll, share of general government
[pos] Public order & safety, share of general government
[property] Property, share of general government
[rd] Revenue decentralization (ratio of own revenues to general government revenues)
[recreation] Recreation, share of general government
[sb] Social benefits, share of general government
[sc] Social contributions, share of general government
[sd] Expenditure decentralization (ratio of own spending to general government spending)
[sp] Social protection, share of general government
[subs] Subsidies, share of general government
[taxd] Tax revenue decentralization (share of general government)
[transferDep1] Transfer dependency method 1, ratio of net transfers to own spending
[transferDep2] Transfer dependency method 2, ratio of net transfers to own revenue
[ugs] Use of goods & services, share of general government
[vat] VAT, share of general government
[vfi] Vertical Fiscal Imbalance (1- ratio of own revenue to own spending)

[REF_SECTOR] Reporting Institutional Sector

[1C_CG] Central Government
[1C_LG] Local Government
[1C_SG] State Government
[1C_SNG] Subnational Government

Temporal Coverage: Annual data starting in 1972 and ending with Current Year - 2

Geographic Coverage: 75 economies

Methodology: Fiscal decentralization indicators are computed using fiscal data on flows and stocks of the general government sector disaggregated between central and subnational government subsectors (state/provincial/regional, and local) measured within the framework of the Government Finance Statistics Manual, 2014. Please refer to the methodological note "The IMF’s Fiscal Decentralization Dataset: A Primer to the 2018 Vintage" by Victor Lledo, Clement Ncuti, Moses Kabanda, Christina Hu and Yuan Xiang for a detailed description of the formulas used to compute each fiscal decentralization indicator.

Sectoral Coverage: Fiscal

Code: FISCALDECENTRALIZATION

Number of time series: 8398

Number of observations: 160957

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Indicator [INDICATOR] (36)

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This dataset has 8,398 series:

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Series code	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
[A.AE.cfc.1C_CG]	0.105768419802189	0.105088576674461	0.110414728522301	0.111044190824032	0.151729747653008	0.127630919218063	0.147401615977287	0.156138211488724	0.163361176848412	0.132023677229881
[A.AE.cfc.1C_SG]	0.893007159233093	0.894376337528229	0.888863980770111	0.887973368167877	0.845809102058411	0.870218932628632	0.849871814250946	0.840785562992096	0.834016263484955	0.864583075046539
[A.AE.cfc.1C_SNG]	0.893007159233093	0.894376337528229	0.888863980770111	0.887973368167877	0.845809102058411	0.870218932628632	0.849871814250946	0.840785562992096	0.834016263484955	0.864583075046539
[A.AE.comp.1C_CG]	0.446613967418671	0.464054703712463	0.438319861888886	0.414693564176559	0.327300578355789	0.311755299568176	0.281285464763641	0.261669099330902	0.208488434553146	0.208277568221092
[A.AE.comp.1C_SG]	0.552479565143585	0.534936010837555	0.560391485691071	0.584122717380524	0.671740233898163	0.687342584133148	0.717794418334961	0.737376689910889	0.79080855846405	0.789517343044281
[A.AE.comp.1C_SNG]	0.552479565143585	0.534936010837555	0.560391485691071	0.584122717380524	0.671740233898163	0.687342584133148	0.717794418334961	0.737376689910889	0.79080855846405	0.789517343044281
[A.AE.cs.1C_CG]	0.110461950302124	0.121598340570927	0.0556472800672054	0.134768232703209	0.224293768405914	0.147726088762283	0.162400364875793	0.1391391903162	0.0669983550906181	0.111289761960506
[A.AE.cs.1C_SG]	0.889628291130066	0.878035306930542	0.944198489189148	0.865160703659058	0.775089263916016	0.852356195449829	0.837718486785889	0.861305952072144	0.9328333735466	0.888494789600372
[A.AE.cs.1C_SNG]	0.889628291130066	0.878035306930542	0.944198489189148	0.865160703659058	0.775089263916016	0.852356195449829	0.837718486785889	0.861305952072144	0.9328333735466	0.888494789600372
[A.AE.defense.1C_CG]	0.676000952720642	0.600049078464508	0.657146871089935	0.606594324111938	0.573963522911072	0.570013046264648	0.326661109924316	0.265398323535919	0.266508489847183	0.271462649106979

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