Expenses by Function

Standard II. UN system function - provides definitions for functions carried out by UN system organizations, to facilitate consistent reporting by entities of expenses against the main functional areas of the UN.

This page shows the different spending dimensions of the UN system by the primary functions as defined by Standard II (before referred as programme categories).

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Expenses by Function

"Other" refers to expenses reported under the old (2010-2017) technical cooperation and normative & knowledge creation activities categories. This aggregation was done for entities whose historical data is not comparable with the new four functions.

Expenses by Function by Year

All values are in USD.

Year	Expense function	Entity	Total	% of total