Cross Country Comparison of Expenditure (share of GDP)

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	Country	Units	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026	2027	2028	2029	Estimates Start After
0	Afghanistan	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6.943	11.927	15.069	15.651	18.262	21.448	20.899	21.151	20.789	21.937	25.028	24.977	25.402	25.947	28.029	27.732	28.936	27.999	27.937	17.934	16.116	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2023
1	Albania	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30.3	36.751	37.108	33.838	32.685	31.535	29.68	30.155	28.892	29.191	29.309	31.726	32.679	29.387	28.923	28.229	29.193	31.729	30.758	29.139	29.162	29.077	29.075	32.552	32.124	30.445	29.059	29.881	30.009	30.306	30.228	30.358	30.358	2022
2	Algeria	Percent of GDP	23.275	27.588	28.21	32.581	30.946	28.911	26.886	28.52	28.733	29.426	26.352	29.089	32.494	27.026	27.082	27.843	27.838	33.108	37.306	40.114	35.09	37.721	40.031	33.466	36.947	40.918	37.179	36.249	36.25	37.099	37.506	32.54	32.03	34.054	36.299	34.666	33.162	32.429	32.132	31.899	2022
3	Andorra	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	26.704	25	24.216	23.69	23.387	25.189	27.602	29.461	29.916	28.85	29.109	33.935	31.962	31.662	33.329	34.568	34.852	35.93	35.844	42.336	39.044	34.889	36.523	36.188	36.791	36.81	36.91	37.053	36.993	2022
4	Angola	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	33.197	35.186	34.339	51.772	40.568	34.287	31.223	34.4	29.803	26.527	30.604	38.129	52.666	45.007	39.394	37.402	37.209	37.05	36.457	27.051	22.043	24.103	20.579	20.403	23.277	19.477	22.547	20.12	18.108	16.962	16.792	15.88	16.443	15.732	2022
5	Antigua and Barbuda	Percent of GDP	18.887	21.736	19.655	20.533	22.432	22.395	20.973	18.081	22.418	22.14	22.997	26.518	29.037	26.846	24.472	24.087	29.311	26.988	26.386	36.209	22.563	23.861	21.077	23.223	23.01	26.704	24.658	23.577	22.301	22.783	25.891	24.009	23.514	22.218	21.543	21.559	21.514	21.568	21.609	21.714	2022
6	Argentina	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	22.017	22.938	22.862	22.687	22.586	23.13	25.471	25.247	26.432	21.853	22.026	23.03	24.426	26.617	29.551	30.762	34.524	33.358	34.902	36.821	37.603	38.853	41.366	41.522	41.121	38.949	38.129	42.479	37.779	37.814	36.438	34.541	34.212	35.104	33.618	33.399	33.184	2022
7	Armenia	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	19.871	20	22.42	22.236	28.553	26.201	24.964	22.415	23.797	23.991	26.331	27.048	26.027	24.05	24.902	30.648	28.667	26.379	26.845	29.488	29.61	29.727	29.371	29.241	29.042	2022
8	Aruba	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	26.332	27.458	24.989	21.574	22.798	21.606	22.508	24.66	25.136	29.245	24.477	24.827	22.62	25.359	26.888	30.443	27.199	30.761	29.454	29.834	25.373	25.119	24.558	24.863	23.688	40.237	28.859	21.679	21.981	22.036	21.88	21.903	21.841	21.799	21.757	2022
9	Australia	Percent of GDP	30.481	33.058	34.049	34.139	33.742	33.69	33.538	32.816	34.642	36.211	35.215	35.628	34.916	34.896	34.826	34.58	34.541	34.306	35.074	37.748	36.946	36.309	36.509	36.358	36.73	37.244	37.257	36.737	36.824	38.861	44.37	41.813	37.557	37.134	36.566	35.268	34.805	34.593	34.41	34.291	2022
10	Austria	Percent of GDP	46.57	47.594	49.003	54.009	54.019	55.821	55.629	52.276	54.054	50.305	50.654	51.357	52.43	49.926	53.704	51.154	50.378	49.242	49.871	54.141	52.835	50.892	51.213	51.648	52.322	51.027	50.071	49.299	48.758	48.674	56.806	56.18	53.177	51.573	52.11	51.609	51.244	51.228	51.159	51.155	2022
11	Azerbaijan	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	14.663	18.912	19.839	18.524	18.721	19.505	18.24	16.785	23.139	21.662	24.216	22.498	25.299	26.068	31.439	34.506	31.958	33.735	36.636	37.779	36.374	38.699	35.425	35.571	33.183	32.52	40.157	32.168	26.202	31.512	31.461	31.256	30.789	30.193	29.756	29.255	2022
12	The Bahamas	Percent of GDP	11.396	11.89	11.796	11.512	11.749	11.532	11.51	12.872	12.034	9.295	11.563	11.379	11.632	11.789	12.485	12.851	13.241	13.629	14.338	15.227	15.432	17.072	16.971	18.219	18.305	18.66	19.56	23.616	19.742	20.257	25.948	31.846	26.828	24.85	24.431	24.189	23.83	23.375	23.105	22.984	2023
13	Bahrain	Percent of GDP	33.738	29.748	30.648	27.829	27.247	26.135	23.642	32.305	26.789	28.219	23.095	27.668	31.88	29.284	26.055	24.923	24.115	23.351	23.647	25.638	32.394	31.36	32.342	33.212	28.416	36.5	34.98	32.181	33.568	32.681	35.803	31.838	28.817	29.155	27.679	26.853	26.217	25.667	25.625	25.546	2022
14	Bangladesh	Percent of GDP	9.138	8.862	8.797	9.739	10.048	10.462	9.791	9.889	9.821	8.658	9.756	10.73	10.356	10.152	9.885	10.263	10.127	9.627	11.54	10.576	10.601	11.534	11.695	12.088	11.748	11.503	11.601	12.235	12.95	13.552	13.308	12.967	13.011	12.934	13.443	13.855	14.865	14.993	15.132	15.168	2023
15	Barbados	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	17.311	19.28	21.333	22.066	20.259	21.12	22.526	23.683	33.328	31.774	30.261	30.833	29.518	31.146	32.312	33.336	33.479	31.587	34.556	35.17	33.084	34.954	33.619	32.864	29.277	25.422	34.952	32.857	30.953	28.625	28.967	27.703	27.301	26.93	26.78	26.611	2023
16	Belarus	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	42.38	43.782	43.531	44.003	44.985	47.21	49.171	60.009	51.703	44.319	40.295	38.893	40.813	38.836	41.77	40.683	39.042	37.845	37.353	38.045	37.063	36.642	36.119	36.754	37.034	37.206	37.096	37.121	37.156	2022
17	Belgium	Percent of GDP	54.369	55.625	55.912	57.058	54.66	52.645	53.052	51.602	50.959	50.497	49.398	49.379	49.904	51.047	49.319	51.862	48.789	48.563	50.775	54.681	53.878	55.304	56.478	56.116	55.6	53.72	53.118	52.03	52.265	51.909	58.753	54.845	53.156	54.761	55.069	55.302	55.459	55.848	56.08	56.194	2022
18	Belize	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20.442	20.581	21.799	24.829	24.351	26.836	25.296	25.352	22.404	22.115	21.251	22.148	21.858	23.27	23.437	23.637	22.261	23.966	24.969	27.927	27.649	27.661	26.85	27.468	33.146	25.776	22.966	23.702	23.889	24.276	24.332	24.286	24.274	24.223	2022
19	Benin	Percent of GDP	18.122	17.226	18.402	16.378	18.531	20.196	18.151	17.349	14.884	10.746	15.641	15.447	15.284	13.686	13.36	14.139	13.006	15.809	14.549	16.997	14.076	14.728	14.236	14.894	14.225	18.153	15.428	17.785	16.568	14.601	19.071	19.855	19.864	19.327	18.914	18.631	18.91	19.41	19.81	20.21	2022
20	Bhutan	Percent of GDP	35.846	30.806	34.456	35.213	37.875	38.61	37.885	37.829	31.105	40.172	43.03	50.3	39.305	34.724	30.998	36.431	33.428	33.194	36.101	39.307	42.025	36.828	35.776	33.038	29.125	27.654	30.367	30.798	31.692	24.248	30.948	36.629	32.088	29.104	28.646	29.575	30.283	30.756	31.056	31.491	2023
21	Bolivia	Percent of GDP	22.776	24.181	25.253	27.181	26.767	25.781	26.048	28.28	29.973	29.364	29.314	31.955	33.293	31.99	32.345	33.183	29.834	32.653	35.333	33.204	31.5	35.356	36.038	38.438	43.257	44.585	39.929	38.598	37.094	36.066	37.976	34.398	35.997	35.345	35.483	34.849	34.336	34.098	33.913	33.779	2022
22	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	54.428	57.503	56.306	50.351	47.557	47.411	45.597	45.705	45.67	46.55	49.417	49.012	48.718	46.42	46.926	44.523	46.27	42.689	41.455	39.981	40.423	39.915	45.385	39.856	38.781	41.431	42.593	42.321	42.005	41.694	41.335	41.071	2022
23	Botswana	Percent of GDP	38.921	41.101	42.313	41.97	37.602	36.121	36.066	39.001	41.772	40.068	38.819	42.119	45.082	42.746	39.847	33.783	33.121	37.067	48.122	52.123	42.581	37.158	37.147	33.487	36.532	37.813	34.111	34.672	35.591	36.861	36.536	31.397	28.686	29.289	32.349	29.282	27.426	27.757	27.731	27.691	2023
24	Brazil	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	41.383	46.113	42.742	41.092	43.361	42.742	41.581	41.674	41.713	42.165	42.066	41.923	42.548	44.168	49.15	48.592	48.289	47.51	46.808	49.915	42.944	45.626	47.85	47.194	46.661	46.502	46.282	46.066	46.004	2023
25	Brunei Darussalam	Percent of GDP	31.955	30.647	34.113	37.959	47.056	43.968	36.855	38.978	45.383	44.144	37.492	35.475	41.425	30.887	33.154	29.053	27.989	29.326	27.171	34.835	36.177	29.709	30.991	33.582	34.088	38.677	39.352	36.578	32.152	32.435	33.235	29.284	26.376	28.84	29.141	28.31	27.572	26.738	25.725	24.6	2022
26	Bulgaria	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30.605	36.156	37.13	36.477	35.075	35.765	34.611	34.033	32.501	33.114	33.452	33.771	34.554	31.954	32.519	35.47	37.08	37.33	32.725	32.028	34.327	35.869	37.811	38.607	37.69	37.742	39.034	39.173	38.984	38.342	38.318	38.21	2023
27	Burkina Faso	Percent of GDP	18.422	16.969	16.75	17.865	17.83	19.435	19.752	20.026	19.741	21.394	19.827	19.66	19.467	17.598	20.257	20.217	21.878	22.838	18.591	21.519	21.655	20.436	22.668	25.261	20.928	20.359	21.633	26.262	24.192	23.437	24.542	27.886	32.435	29.043	27.428	27.374	27.059	26.809	27.042	27.216	2022
28	Burundi	Percent of GDP	20.264	22.364	30.391	27.961	22.551	25.743	28.449	21.856	23.208	23.597	24.646	25.402	24.069	36.468	40.804	33.142	36.474	38.965	41.163	37.988	40.844	42.187	37.544	34.769	28.459	23.168	22.574	24.093	26.019	28.771	29.444	30.38	33.559	30.198	37.835	34.352	32.541	28.683	26.32	25.907	2022
29	Cabo Verde	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	48.286	47.333	43.047	39.263	33.648	36.861	42.143	31.056	36.425	31.359	35.198	35.133	38.047	36.252	36.742	34.145	35.708	30.342	31.581	30.867	27.769	28.697	26.648	27.983	27.539	27.502	34.527	31.625	26.67	25.506	30.95	28.303	26.61	26.526	26.444	26.538	2022
30	Cambodia	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15.495	12.282	13.26	13.656	14.881	14.543	16.065	14.537	12.579	10.982	11.284	12.286	13.08	16.972	17.018	16.48	17.092	16.427	16.458	15.136	15.918	16.889	17.072	17.587	20.306	20.988	16.771	17.775	16.466	16.496	16.536	16.43	16.549	16.503	2022
31	Cameroon	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	14.575	14.602	13.862	13.164	13.409	12.427	12.504	13.462	15.912	14.701	15.186	17.846	17.152	19.208	20.062	20.069	20.184	19.227	17.953	18.665	16.58	16.94	17.056	16.628	16.345	15.974	16.411	16.596	16.629	16.853	2022
32	Canada	Percent of GDP	48.09	51.438	52.507	51.477	49.012	47.735	45.864	43.463	43.406	41.773	40.558	41.102	40.394	40.276	39.135	38.521	38.661	38.519	38.775	43.421	43.064	41.575	40.926	39.961	38.37	40.018	40.753	40.455	40.662	40.59	52.362	45.438	41.034	42.442	42.202	41.978	41.851	41.775	41.662	41.552	2023
33	Central African Republic	Percent of GDP	22.008	22.633	23.092	20.626	22.352	20.569	11.712	14.46	18.05	18.196	17.164	14.142	16.663	12.294	13.076	16.179	13.37	12.872	16.027	15.999	17.259	14.158	14.742	13.399	18.016	13.964	12.119	13.856	17.606	16.912	25.111	19.69	17.643	17.886	17.007	17.948	18.069	18.286	18.304	18.52	2022
34	Chad	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	11.708	11.414	11.43	9.659	12.27	13.363	11.412	13.121	14.196	9.365	8.447	10.129	12.358	13.657	18.697	18.24	16.784	18.323	17.514	16.898	13.845	10.937	11.239	9.608	10.538	14.346	13.81	13.873	20.359	16.975	16.603	16.126	16.221	16.1	16.096	2022
35	Chile	Percent of GDP	20.991	21.249	20.933	21.218	20.621	19.451	20.635	20.582	21.905	23.692	22.87	23.181	23.202	22.218	20.816	20.249	18.73	19.307	21.791	24.976	23.466	22.886	23.089	23.113	23.853	25.028	25.367	25.493	25.616	26.497	29.088	33.595	26.646	26.858	27.672	27.148	26.233	26.052	25.978	25.982	2023
36	China	Percent of GDP	18.207	16.643	14.749	13.53	12.469	11.177	11.095	11.627	12.735	15.025	16.268	17.44	18.464	18.228	17.871	18.267	18.339	18.151	22.525	25.654	25.094	27.119	28.159	28.564	28.89	31.552	32.316	32.635	33.277	34.153	35.403	32.686	33.481	33.856	33.564	33.954	34.347	34.53	34.714	34.84	2023
37	Colombia	Percent of GDP	17.448	17.691	18.408	20.003	20.572	22.196	25.069	26.176	26.341	28.259	26.579	27.507	28.074	28.014	26.631	25.889	28.441	28.162	28.429	30.914	30.35	30.233	29.093	29.998	31.261	31.277	29.994	29.32	34.658	32.879	33.542	34.302	33.934	35.038	33.891	32.864	32.282	32.254	32.006	31.68	2023
38	Comoros	Percent of GDP	20.278	19.953	20.369	16.285	21.803	18.397	15.528	14.548	13.084	11.465	9.748	12.994	14.262	12.76	11.713	11.731	12.455	13.064	15.129	13.662	13.267	13.217	14.86	14.827	14.528	19.059	18.906	18.849	19.168	20.139	18.767	19.952	18.278	21.821	20.581	18.181	18.379	18.309	18.483	18.773	2022
39	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2.173	2.512	2.785	2.147	2.489	4.258	4.173	9.186	8.111	8.28	8.454	8.781	10.067	12.383	15.351	13.692	13.405	11.941	12.935	15.231	13.927	10.36	11.729	13.323	12.556	13.783	17.468	17.371	16.175	15.534	15.481	15.522	15.665	15.726	2022
40	Republic of Congo	Percent of GDP	30.437	34.08	32.766	32.844	30.708	27.581	15.719	22.197	25.068	28.752	22.645	29.078	32.135	27.013	24.389	22.125	26.63	28.582	24.166	24.433	22.997	27.873	30.657	42.392	48.562	41.288	38.807	26.6	17.787	20.153	21.108	20.935	22.846	22.962	21.633	22.239	22.249	21.256	20.247	19.054	2021
41	Costa Rica	Percent of GDP	18.873	14.005	13.745	13.817	17.422	16.402	17.287	16.256	16.027	16.712	16.87	17.28	18.551	17.567	17.006	15.889	15.15	14.595	15.18	16.659	18.042	17.18	17.343	18.519	18.4	18.759	18.756	19.157	18.895	21.686	22.292	20.773	19.188	18.437	18.27	17.981	17.823	17.571	17.38	17.208	2023
42	Côte d'Ivoire	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15.172	14.565	13.668	12.877	11.439	13.098	12.675	13.508	13.597	14.461	14.842	14.589	14.386	14.465	13.197	16.142	15.857	15.214	16.503	17.581	18.109	17.561	17.198	20.37	20.454	21.556	21.192	20.444	19.929	20.52	20.978	21.154	21.006	2022
43	Croatia	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	37.111	35.961	45.373	50.296	52.093	51.674	56.82	58.946	54.575	50.627	48.76	49.213	48.525	46.009	44.199	45.94	45.873	49.019	47.906	48.404	47.155	47.958	48.801	47.635	45.984	44.115	45.115	44.166	54.007	48.554	44.911	46.209	47.195	47.442	46.6	44.392	44.407	44.618	2022
44	Cyprus	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30.416	32.444	34.215	34.382	34.32	34.97	35.715	37.422	40.386	38.637	39.689	39.127	37.564	38.218	41.889	41.696	42.075	41.894	42.098	40.316	39.464	37.286	36.41	42.612	38.127	44.225	41.886	38.807	39.946	40.934	40.969	40.973	41.263	41.658	41.846	2023
45	Czech Republic	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	53.211	41.697	41.599	41.882	41.169	40.847	43.31	44.658	49.119	42.324	42.37	41.461	40.439	40.869	44.357	43.63	43.188	44.675	42.65	42.622	41.934	39.751	38.98	40.595	41.054	47.219	46.507	44.59	46.075	43.876	43.101	42.805	42.285	41.564	42.401	2022
46	Denmark	Percent of GDP	54.953	55.377	56.342	59.295	59.293	58.526	57.998	55.907	55.395	54.533	52.687	52.837	53.214	53.639	52.997	51.242	49.83	49.591	50.411	56.536	56.673	56.429	57.955	55.82	55.218	54.528	52.479	50.55	50.548	49.668	53.477	49.805	44.976	46.798	47.736	48.451	48.976	49.331	49.543	49.732	2022
47	Djibouti	Percent of GDP	30.188	27.682	34.865	35.309	30.919	26.997	23.664	24.993	24.008	23.522	23.206	20.958	23.393	25.845	26.696	26.212	23.85	26.571	28.826	31.004	26.63	25.278	26.477	26.814	28.985	41.963	25.873	23.865	25.918	24.911	25.463	23.172	20.046	20.154	20.471	20.11	19.791	19.452	19.597	19.373	2022
48	Dominica	Percent of GDP	31.48	28.956	27.369	25.175	27.189	28.753	28.458	28.15	33.042	35.201	38.518	29.62	28.611	30.107	30.249	30.957	29.691	34.064	34.741	35.909	39.427	35.217	36.172	33.442	32.707	32.393	48.035	53.98	63.432	48.281	66.76	66.978	69.74	47.557	44.813	43.347	42.787	42.318	41.91	41.273	2023
49	Dominican Republic	Percent of GDP	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	13.172	12.596	13.402	14.093	14.892	16.475	17.224	17.333	15.501	16.95	16.321	18.48	16.144	16.049	15.965	19.785	18.477	17	16.681	16.974	17.064	16.352	17.861	22.093	18.538	18.513	19.258	18.855	17.961	17.848	17.678	17.487	17.337	2023

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Provides the total annual government expenditure as a share of GDP for most countries in the world. Source: World Economic Outlook Database, October 2023, IMF

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