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Explore the history of Vanuatu’s public finances from 1980 to 2026. See what the evidence shows, where records are missing, and how recent budgets are allocated.
1980–2026 · SOURCED HISTORY · INDEPENDENT EXPLORERExplore national fiscal summaries and verified original books. Missing years stay visible. Historical fiscal figures and approved budgets have different meanings.
Explore the timeline ↓From the budget to everyday services
Explore every year from 1980 to 2026. The explanation follows the evidence available for that year; detailed ministry activities are verified for 2024–2026.
Each year states its basis: historical fiscal summary, national original-budget summary, or detailed original book. All amounts are nominal; rounded displays retain exact imported values in downloads. Missing figures are never treated as zero.
Download programme activities, school provisions and funding dataProvincial council funding through time
1995–2026 · Earliest dated transfer verified to the current budget year
Earlier funding existed: VT30–50 million annually for 11 predecessor local councils, but the first allocation year is unverified. No annual provincial funding series is claimed for 1980–1994.
Select a bar to open its evidence. All amounts are nominal vatu. Historical grants and recent programme budgets have different coverage; recent allocations include personnel and are not confirmed payments received. Equal historical grants are shown per province only where the source reports equal division.
Green year = sourced observation · Grey year = missing evidence, never zero. No interpolation between observations.
Download provincial funding history and sourcesVanuatu’s budget through time
33 years with sourced figures · 14 years not yet imported · 3 years with detailed original books
Values are nominal vatu, not adjusted for inflation. Different fiscal coverage and classifications limit comparisons across decades. Missing values remain blank and are never interpolated or treated as zero. There is no continuous 1980–2026 salary/operations series.
Historical sources, gaps & comparability
1980–1989: the World Bank’s historical fiscal table combines government data and staff estimates; these figures are not represented as original appropriations. Revenue excludes grants recorded under financing in that table. Expenditure is unavailable there for 1988–1989. Source figures are retained even where components have minor inconsistencies.
1990–2003: no verified figures have been imported. A gap means absent from this dataset, not that the government had no budget. 2004–2023: national allocations come from the official NSDP statistical summary; original books have not been individually verified here.
2024–2026: economic categories are aggregated from original Volume 2 government appropriation columns. Donor financing is excluded from the chart and detailed agency allocations. Original budgets are not revised budgets or actual expenditure. Agency reorganisations prevent automatic comparisons of identically named ministries.
Download historical data and provenance (JSON)What is each budget used for?
Verified original books · 2024–2026
These are budgeted amounts, not actual expenditure. “Operations” means Other Goods and Services. Transfers, capital and debt are shown separately.
How these classifications work
Personnel Emoluments includes wages and salaries, allowances and employer contributions. A personnel budget is broader than salaries alone. Operations is the source’s Other Goods and Services classification. It excludes personnel, Subsidies & Transfers, Capital Expenditure and Debt Servicing.
Figures are summed from each cost centre’s selected-year Government Appropriation column in Volume 2. Donor grants, aid-in-kind and external loans are excluded. Each agency’s categories reconcile to its source Agency Total; wages, allowances and contributions also reconcile to personnel costs. Verified agency totals, rounded for display, sum to VT 57.051 billion in 2024, VT 49.772 billion in 2025 and VT 54.878 billion in 2026. Small differences from Volume 1 arise from published rounding.
Unlabelled source entries remain unclassified: VT 69.992 million in Finance in 2024 (Public Debt Provisions, printed p. 202), and VT 480,000 in Tourism in 2026. They are not assigned to operations or another category. Zero-budget legacy agencies are retained as the book presents them. Finance includes central government payments and is not simply its administrative running cost.
Download selected year’s economic classification data (JSON)Allocation explorer
Choose a year to explore its verified allocation data.
Understand the numbers
What is an appropriation?
An appropriation authorises government spending for a specified purpose. Actual spending may differ. The detailed recent-year views display original budget estimates, not audited expenditure. Older fiscal summaries are labelled separately.
Where does government funding come from?
Funding can include taxes, fees, grants, borrowing and reserves. Borrowing and use of reserves are financing, not tax revenue. The government-funded envelope here should not be read as revenue collected.
Why is Finance the largest allocation?
The ministry’s budget includes “Payments on Behalf of Government”. Its full allocation should not be interpreted as the cost of running the finance ministry alone.
Can I see spending in my province?
Select Internal Affairs in Budget details to see the six Provincial Council allocations for 2024–2026. These are council programme budgets, not all government spending in each province.
Sources for 2026
Evidence follows the year you select in the timeline, chart or detailed budget.
Allocation explorer methodology
The year selector covers 1980–2026. Detailed views for 2024–2026 use the original Government Appropriation column of Volume 2, with individual ministry and constitutional agency totals and full programme activities. Shares and the VT100 grid use the selected year’s government total. Earlier years show verified national summaries or evidence gaps; no agency allocations are inferred. Detailed CSV downloads follow the selected year; summary-year CSVs retain their fiscal basis and units.
The following describes the retained legacy 2024 Volume 1 dataset, available as data.json, rather than the current Volume 2 explorer:
Source: Department of Finance and Treasury. Retrieved 21 October 2026. All 14 Table 9 group totals were transcribed and sum to VT 57.051 billion. Programme details are selected examples, not an exhaustive breakdown; minor rounding differences may occur. Categories are editorial navigation labels, not official sector classifications.
The foreword reports government financing of VT 57.051 billion, donor financing of VT 20.5718 billion and a combined VT 77.623 billion. The components sum to VT 77.6228 billion, a VT 200,000 difference. Exact source values are retained in downloads; displayed amounts are rounded. Shares use only VT 57.051 billion. The “VT 100” grid rounds shares to 100 squares using the largest remainder method.
This independent prototype is not a government website. No detailed actual-expenditure records or citizen submissions are included. Verified Provincial Council programme allocations are available under Internal Affairs for 2024–2026. Detailed original-book classifications are available for 2024–2026; the allocation explorer supports year selection, with detailed agency views for 2024–2026 and clearly labelled national summaries or gaps for earlier years.
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