Qatar Economic Outlook Issue Number 13

 
Figure 2-44: Public revenues and its 
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Part 2 - Economic Performance 2017 - 2020 
 
 
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Public Expenditures 
Preliminary total actual public expenditures in 
2020 amounted to about QR 182.4 billion, 
equivalent to $50 billion, which constitutes 
about 34.7% of GDP. Capital expenditures 
made up 36%, followed by wages and 
salaries expenditures at 31%, and 
expenditures of goods and services at 15%, 
interest expenses at 6.4%, and other 
expenses at 10%, as shown in Figure (2-45).
It is noteworthy that public expenditures went 
down by 12.5% compared to the actual 
expenditures of 2019, which also fell by 
13.3% from what had been estimated as 
public expenditures in the 2020 budget. The 
decline in total actual expenditures in 2020 
compared to the actual expenditures in 2019 
is due to a decrease in the contribution of 
expenditures in salaries and wages by 3.9 
percentage points, goods and services 
expenditures by 1.5 percentage points, 
interest payments expenditures by 2.3 
percentage points, and capital expenditures 
by 8.5 percentage points.
On the other hand, public expenditures in the 
2021 budget were estimated to be about QR 
194.7 billion, a decrease of 7.5% from what 
had been estimated for public expenditures 
in the 2020 budget. This decrease is mainly 
due to a decline in capital expenditures by 
about 18.6% because of the
completion of 
many infrastructure projects, as well as the 
decline in wages and salaries expenses by 
1.9% due to pandemic-related pay cuts for 
non-Qatari government staff. 
As for the implementation of the 2021 budget 
in terms of public expenditures, the data 
published on the Ministry of Finance website 
showed that the total amount spent during 
the first three quarters of 2021 was QR 137.3 
billion, equivalent to 71% of the total planned 
in the budget, but with an increase by 1% of 
what was actually spent during the same 
period in 2020.