| name | fjarlog |
| description | Icelandic state budget (fjárlög) — appropriations + 5-year plan by málaflokkur: actuals, enacted, bill, plan. Defense = 04.30. |
Fjárlög — Icelandic state budget (appropriations + 5-year plan)
The forward-looking counterpart to rikisreikningur
(which is actuals). Where ríkisreikningur answers "what was spent",
fjárlög answers "what was appropriated / planned". The newspaper tables on
defense, NATO targets, etc. are drawn from here — specifically from the
fjármálaáætlun (5-year fiscal plan) and the annual fjárlagafrumvarp
(budget bill), published by Fjármála- og efnahagsráðuneytið on
stjornarradid.is.
Source
Per budget year there is a "Skjöl og gögn" page, e.g.
https://www.stjornarradid.is/verkefni/opinber-fjarmal/fjarlog/fjarlog-fyrir-arid-2026/skjol-og-gogn/
It links PDFs (frumvarp, samþykkt fjárlög, fylgirit) and one machine-readable
CSV: "Talnagögn úr fjárlagafrumvarpi". That single CSV is the whole budget
at the level Alþingi appropriates it, and it is what this skill targets.
- Filename carries a version suffix that changes between revisions
(
… - 003.csv), so the script discovers the link from the page HTML
rather than hard-coding it (regex on href=".*[Tt]alnag.*\.csv").
- Sibling pages:
fjarmalaaaetlun/fjarmalaaaetlun-2026-2030/skjol-og-gogn/
(the 5-year plan), and …/fjarlog-fyrir-arid-{Y}/fylgirit/ for the PDF
"Yfirlit 3 — Fjárveitingar eftir málaflokkum og ráðuneytum".
No API key, no auth. Plain file download over HTTPS.
CSV schema (semicolon-delimited, UTF-8 BOM)
| Column | Meaning |
|---|
Ár | year |
Afurð | data product — see below |
FlokkunNy | (mostly empty; new-classification flag) |
Málefnasvið | policy area, "04 Utanríkismál" (01–36) |
Málaflokkur | policy sub-area, "04.30 Samstarf um öryggis- og varnarmál" |
Ráðuneyti | ministry, "02 Utanríkisráðuneyti" |
Liður | institution group |
Viðfang | appropriation item, "101 Varnarmál" |
TegundNota | view discriminator — see below |
Upphæð | amount in m.kr (millions ISK) |
One file spans four Afurð products in one long table:
| Afurð | Years (in 2026 file) | Meaning |
|---|
Ríkisreikningur | 2024 | final state-accounts actuals (outturn) |
Fjárlög | 2025 | enacted budget, prior year |
Frumvarp | 2026 | the budget bill for the budget year |
Áætlun | 2027–2028 | fiscal-plan projection |
TegundNota is a view, never sum across it
The same money appears under several TegundNota values. Pick one; do not
add them up:
Gjöld / Heildarútgjöld — gross expenditure (use for "spending")Tekjur / Rekstrartekjur — revenue / own-revenue (sértekjur)Greiðsla / Fjárhæð — net cash / net appropriationRekstrarframlög + Rekstrartilfærslur + Fjárfestingarframlög
(+ Fjármagnstilfærslur) — the funding-component breakdown that sums to
Heildarútgjöld
Defense — the worked example
Defense is málaflokkur 04.30 "Samstarf um öryggis- og varnarmál"
(viðfang 101 Varnarmál + 601 Tæki og búnaður), under the
Utanríkisráðuneyti.
uv run python scripts/fjarlog.py mala 04.30 # Gjöld, all products
| Year | Afurð | Gjöld (m.kr) |
|---|
| 2024 | Ríkisreikningur (actual) | 6,553 |
| 2025 | Fjárlög (enacted) | 6,821 |
| 2026 | Frumvarp (bill) | 10,404 |
The 2026 bill figure (10.4 bn) matches the press characterisation of
"bein útgjöld til varnar- og öryggismála … um 10,6 milljörðum … 0,22% af VLF".
⚠️ The broad "varnar- og öryggismál" 0,9 %-of-GDP aggregate is NOT this
line. That ~43–53 bn / 0.88–1.00 % series (Minnisblað fjármála- og
efnahagsráðuneytis, A1 + A3 + C-hluti + sveitarfélög) is a bespoke
cross-cutting construct: it folds in parts of the coast guard
(09.20 Landhelgi), civil defence (almannavarnir), cyber/network defence and
airport/harbour readiness on top of 04.30. It cannot be reproduced by summing a
single málaflokkur, and it lives only in the ministry memo, not in this CSV.
The raw heimamundur ledger in rikisreikningur slices
04.30 by economic type and yields a smaller ~3.2 bn — that is an artefact of
how grant-funded operations are booked, not the headline defense number.
Use the budget CSV's Gjöld (6.55 bn for 2024) as the official figure.
Usage
uv run python scripts/fjarlog.py fetch
uv run python scripts/fjarlog.py fetch --year 2026
uv run python scripts/fjarlog.py products
uv run python scripts/fjarlog.py mala 04.30
uv run python scripts/fjarlog.py mala 04.30 --tegund Heildarútgjöld
Processed output data/processed/fjarlog.parquet columns: ar, afurd, flokkun_ny, malefnasvid, malefnasvid_nr, malaflokkur, malaflokkur_nr, raduneyti, lidur, vidfang, tegund, mkr. Query with DuckDB:
duckdb -c "SELECT ar, afurd, SUM(mkr)/1000 AS bn FROM 'data/processed/fjarlog.parquet'
WHERE tegund='Gjöld' GROUP BY 1,2 ORDER BY 1" -- total spending by year
The fylgirit "Yfirlit" CSV exports (alternative source)
The interactive dashboard / fylgirit also lets you export each overview as its
own CSV. These are SSRS report dumps — raw Textbox### column names, repeated
group-header columns, dotted-leader padding ("Alþingi . . . ."), 3-line
preamble — far messier than the single Talnagögn CSV above. Use Talnagögn
for programmatic work; reach for these only for cross-check or the revenue side.
| Export | Content | Verdict |
|---|
| Yfirlit 2 | 2026 appropriations by economic split (rekstur/tilfærslur/fjárfesting) | duplicate of Talnagögn |
| Yfirlit 3 | 2024–2028 by ráðuneyti → málaflokkur → ríkisaðili → viðfang, 5 year columns wide | best cross-check; extends plan to 2028 |
| Yfirlit 4 | 2026 appropriations by ríkisaðili (entity) | duplicate |
| Sundurliðun Tekna (Yfirlit 1) | A1 REVENUE side: tax lines (income tax, VAT…), álagt (assessed) vs greiðsla (cash), 4 years | not in Talnagögn — the only additive file |
Validation (2025-06): Yfirlit 3 reproduces Talnagögn exactly — defense 04.30
= 6,553.3 / 6,820.9 / 10,404.3 m.kr (2024/25/26) and grand total
Samtals útgjöld 2024 = 1,491,095.1 m.kr both match. Yfirlit 3 additionally
gives plan years 2027 = 11,403.1 and 2028 = 9,915.3 m.kr for defense.
Revenue gap: the Talnagögn CSV / fjarlog.parquet only carries
per-málaflokkur own-revenue (sértekjur, ≤~19 bn rows), not the A1 macro
tax revenue (income tax ~304 bn, VAT ~465 bn). For the revenue side use
Sundurliðun Tekna. Parsing it means: skip 3 preamble lines, take leaf rows by
revenue key (111 income/profit tax, 112 payroll, 113 property, 114 goods &
services/VAT…), columns alagt{n}/greidsla{n} are assessed-vs-cash per year.
Caveats
mkr is millions ISK. Divide by 1000 for billions. Number format
varies by revision (dot-decimal 6381.1 in the current file; older
revisions used comma-decimal 6.381,1) — the script normalises both.- Never sum across
TegundNota (see above). Filter to one view first.
- Year coverage shifts with each budget edition: the 2026 file gives
2024 actual → 2028 plan. Re-
fetch to roll the window forward; pass
--year to target a specific edition's page.
- Gross vs net.
Gjöld/Heildarútgjöld are gross of own-revenue; the
málaflokkur-level totals are before inter-entity eliminations, so the
project-wide sum (~1,491 bn for 2024) runs above the consolidated
ríkisreikningur expenditure (~1,245 bn).
- Defense definition. 04.30 = direct defense only. The 0.9 %-of-GDP
"varnar- og öryggismál" aggregate is a separate ministry construct (see
the worked example above).
- Discovery fallback. If the page layout changes and the CSV link can't
be found, the script falls back to a hard-coded 2026 URL and prints a
warning — re-point
_FALLBACK_CSV if needed.
Related
- rikisreikningur — actuals (outturn); pairs with this skill's plan/appropriations
- opnirreikningar — invoice-level government spending
- hagstofan — GFS-standard fiscal aggregates (THJ tables), GDP (VLF) for %-of-GDP ratios
