The Maldivian government expenditure has exceeded MVR 20 billion so far this year.

Statistics revealed by the Ministry of Finance show that the expenditure for this year has reached 20.5 billion. For the same period last year, the government expenditure was MVR 19.9 billion.

Finance Ministry's statistics show that the state spent MVR 13.9 billion as recurrent expenditure. These include MVR 5.5 billion spent on salaries, wages and pension of staff, as well as the MVR 8.4 billion spent on administrative and operational expenses.

The government has so far spent MVR 4.5 billion as capital expenditure. As such, MVR 191.4 million was spent on capital equipment and MVR 2.9 billion was spent on infrastructure assets. While MVR 1 billion was spent on development projects and investment outlays, it is recorded that the state spent MVR 321.5 million as domestic lending.

Moreover, statistics show that the government has spent MVR 2 billion for loan repayment.

So far this year, MVR 423.4 million was transferred to the Sovereign Development Fund and MVR 3 billion was spent on public sector investment programs.