Total expenditure consists of total expense and the net acquisition of non-financial assets. Note: Apart from being on an accrual basis, total expenditure differs from the GFSM 1986 definition of total expenditure in the sense that it also takes the disposals of non-financial assets into account.
| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lesotho | 32.9 | 39.3 | 37.6 | 55.3 | 60.2 | 58.1 | 58.4 | 50.1 | 51.7 | 54.1 | 50.4 | 51.9 | 53.5 | 54.4 | 54.2 | 48.8 | 49.4 |
| Namibia | 30.2 | 30.1 | 27.7 | 33.5 | 38.5 | 35.0 | 38.3 | 41.8 | 43.7 | 41.8 | 38.1 | 36.3 | 37.4 | 41.5 | 39.2 | 36.1 | 37.3 |
| Seychelles | 46.1 | 55.4 | 39.0 | 34.6 | 36.3 | 38.6 | 37.8 | 32.7 | 31.1 | 34.3 | 32.3 | 32.7 | 31.2 | 45.8 | 38.7 | 30.7 | 32.9 |
| South Africa | 22.6 | 25.1 | 28.3 | 28.1 | 28.6 | 28.9 | 29.3 | 30.2 | 29.9 | 29.9 | 30.2 | 31.4 | 34.6 | 32.6 | 32.0 | 32.9 | |
| Mozambique | 21.0 | 17.2 | 17.0 | 26.6 | 28.9 | 28.1 | 31.7 | 39.7 | 32.2 | 28.7 | 29.0 | 31.0 | 28.0 | 32.2 | 30.8 | 33.6 | 30.6 |
| Botswana | 38.9 | 38.8 | 33.8 | 42.6 | 37.2 | 37.1 | 33.5 | 36.5 | 37.8 | 34.1 | 34.7 | 35.6 | 36.9 | 36.5 | 31.4 | 28.7 | 29.3 |
| Eswatini | 17.7 | 24.0 | 28.1 | 30.2 | 24.4 | 26.3 | 27.9 | 31.5 | 33.6 | 34.2 | 35.1 | 34.6 | 34.0 | 33.3 | 29.0 | 27.6 | 28.8 |
| Zambia | 21.4 | 22.5 | 18.1 | 19.5 | 21.9 | 24.0 | 24.3 | 27.6 | 23.9 | 25.0 | 27.7 | 29.8 | 34.0 | 30.5 | 28.2 | 27.7 | |
| Mauritius | 21.2 | 21.8 | 23.2 | 23.0 | 21.9 | 23.4 | 22.5 | 23.7 | 23.3 | 23.6 | 23.9 | 30.2 | 32.1 | 28.2 | 27.4 | 27.5 | |
| Malawi | 17.4 | 19.6 | 17.0 | 18.8 | 20.7 | 18.3 | 19.5 | 19.7 | 21.0 | 19.4 | 19.3 | 22.7 | 23.7 | 26.7 | 25.5 | ||
| Zimbabwe | 15.7 | 18.1 | 23.2 | 20.4 | 20.9 | 20.4 | 20.5 | 23.7 | 27.9 | 20.2 | 11.7 | 12.5 | 17.5 | 22.6 | 24.3 | ||
| Comoros | 20.3 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.3 | 13.2 | 14.9 | 14.8 | 14.5 | 19.1 | 18.9 | 18.8 | 19.2 | 20.1 | 18.8 | 20.0 | 18.3 | 21.8 |
| Angola | 40.6 | 26.5 | 39.4 | 37.4 | 37.2 | 37.1 | 36.5 | 27.1 | 22.0 | 24.1 | 20.6 | 20.4 | 23.3 | 19.5 | 22.5 | 20.1 | |
| Tanzania | 12.3 | 18.3 | 19.8 | 19.0 | 19.6 | 18.8 | 17.3 | 17.2 | 16.9 | 16.6 | 17.3 | 17.3 | 17.4 | 18.4 | 19.1 | 19.1 | |
| Madagascar | 13.3 | 15.3 | 18.4 | 12.3 | 12.0 | 11.5 | 12.7 | 12.6 | 13.0 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 14.4 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 13.7 | 16.3 | 18.1 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2.5 | 8.3 | 15.4 | 13.7 | 13.4 | 11.9 | 12.9 | 15.2 | 13.9 | 10.4 | 11.7 | 13.3 | 12.6 | 13.8 | 17.5 | 17.4 |