UN Peacekeeping Annual Expenditure Data from Secretary-General Reports

Annual expenditure data extracted from the Secretary-General's performance reports for peacekeeping operations, the UN Logistics Base in Brindisi, the Regional Service Centre in Entebbe, and the support account for peacekeeping. The dataset reflects gross requirements, covering appropriations and expenditures for military and police personnel, civilian personnel, operational costs, and other categories. An AI model was trained to extract the budget tables, with outputs validated via simple random sampling.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in peacekeeping operational costs based on the reported gross requirements.
• Comparing expenditure allocations between military/police personnel and civilian personnel categories.
• Training or validating financial data extraction models based on the described AI methodology.
• Studying the financial footprint of specific UN entities like the Logistics Base in Brindisi or the Regional Service Centre in Entebbe.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative UN Secretary-General performance reports.
• Extraction methodology involved an AI model trained for the specific task, followed by validation via simple random sampling.
• Covers multiple financial entities: peacekeeping operations, the Brindisi base, the Entebbe centre, and the support account.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Staff assessment income and voluntary contributions in kind are explicitly excluded from the dataset.

Provenance

Source

United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub

Collection Method

Extracted from Secretary-General performance reports using a trained AI model, with validation via simple random sampling.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 10:06:24.410635; freshness should be verified.