These costs, coupled with a 24 percent increase in civil service wages and salaries and a 42 percent increase in defense spending, resulted in a government budget deficit of US$350.8 million, or more than 2 percent of GDP, in 2005.
這些成本加上公務員工資及薪金增加24%、國防開支增加42%，導致2005年政府預算赤字為3.508億美元，超過國內生產總值的2%。