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Government at a
Glance
Zsuzsanna Lonti
OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate
Goals of Government at a Glance
Regarding policy development:
• Help governments to better serve citizens and business
• Support policy makers to deliver on government priorities
• Provide comparative data on
• governance capacity
• government performance
Goals of Government at a Glance
For practitioners
• To better understand their own practices
• Demonstrate their progress
• Benchmark their own achievements through international comparisons
• Learn from the experiences of other countries facing similar challenges
• Over time link practices to performance
OECD Government at a Glance
What makes G@G different?
• Unique access to governments
– data collected from government officials
– practitioner focus
• Indicators selected in consensus with member countries
• Co-operation with working parties and expert groups
• No single super indicator
Released Oct. 2009 www.oecd.org/gov/indicators/
govataglance
Content of first G@G publication
How much and what
kind of resources
does government
use?
Inputs
What does the government do, and how does it do it?
Processes
What are the goods and
services which the
government produces?
Outputs
What is the resulting
impact on citizens?
Outcomes
How much money does government
collect?
Revenue
Structure of government
1. Political and Administrative Context
2. Revenues 3. Expenditures 4. Production Costs 5. Public sector employment 6. Central government workforce characteristics
7. HRM 8. Budgeting 9. Regulatory Management 10. Integrity 11. E-government 12. Open government
Government plays a large
role in economy
Government expenditure as a percentage of GDP
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Sw
ed
en
Fra
nce
Hu
ng
ary
Den
ma
rk
Ita
ly
Au
stri
a
Fin
lan
d
Bel
giu
m
Po
rtu
ga
l
Ne
ther
lan
ds
Ge
rma
ny
Un
ite
d K
ing
do
m
Cze
ch R
epu
bli
c
Po
lan
d
Gre
ece
Icel
an
d
No
rwa
y
Ne
w Z
eala
nd
Ca
na
da
Lu
xem
bo
urg
Sp
ain
Slo
va
k R
epu
bli
c
Un
ited
Sta
tes
Ja
pa
n
Au
stra
lia
Ire
lan
d
Sw
itze
rla
nd
Ko
rea
Mex
ico
OE
CD
29
2006 (or closest year available) 1995
Most spending on social programmes
General government expenditure by function (2006) Average for 26 OECD countries
Social protection, 34.2%
Health, 15.1% General public
services, 13.8%
Education, 12.9%
Economic affairs, 10.6%
Public order and safety, 3.8%
Defence, 3.4%
Recreation, culture and religion, 2.6%
Housing and community amenities,
2.0%
Environmental protection, 1.7%
Outsourcing has increased
Expenditures on public goods and services produced by the private sector as a percentage of GDP
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%
18%
Ne
the
rla
nd
s
Sw
ed
en
Un
ite
d K
ing
do
m
Ge
rm
an
y
Cz
ec
h R
ep
ub
lic
Fin
lan
d
Ne
w Z
ea
lan
d
Fr
an
ce
Be
lgiu
m
De
nm
ar
k
Slo
va
k R
ep
ub
lic
Ca
na
da
Un
ite
d S
tate
s
Po
rtu
ga
l
No
rw
ay
Po
lan
d
Ita
ly
Lu
xe
mb
ou
rg
Sp
ain
Ire
lan
d
Sw
itz
er
lan
d
Me
xic
o
OE
CD
22
1995 2007
Employment
Employment in general government as a % of the labour force
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
No
rwa
y
Sw
ed
en
Fra
nc
e
Fin
lan
d
Hu
ng
ary
Be
lgiu
m
Ca
na
da
Ire
lan
d
Un
ite
d K
ing
do
m
Ita
ly
Un
ite
d S
tate
s
Gre
ec
e
Au
str
ali
a
Po
rtu
gal
Po
lan
d
Sp
ain
Cze
ch
Re
pu
bli
c
Ne
the
rla
nd
s
Me
xic
o
Ge
rma
ny
Au
str
ia
Slo
va
k R
ep
ub
lic
Tu
rke
y
Sw
itze
rla
nd
Ko
rea
Ja
pa
n
OC
DE
26
2005 1995
Uptake of Regulatory Impact
Assessment in OECD countries
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
19
74
19
76
19
78
19
80
19
82
19
84
19
86
19
88
19
90
19
92
19
94
199
6
19
98
20
00
20
02
20
04
20
06
20
08
Nu
mb
er
of
co
un
trie
s
31
Availability of governance data
from MENA region
• International Budget Practices and Procedures Database: availability of information on budget institutions from 97 countries
• Data collected in 2008 for MENA countries
• Results have to be interpreted with caution as the data cleaning is still in progress
Limitation by law
on fiscal policy (2007)
Expenditure Revenue Budget balance
Debt
Jordan ● ● ● ●
Qatar ● ❍ ❍ ❍
Tunisia ● ● ❍ ●
OECD30 (Distribution)
50.0% 20.0% 66.7% 56.7%
