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Argentina: Government consumption (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1935–2025 · 91 observations · forecasts to 2026 · gcons_GDP

2025
14.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.2 pointsfrom 14.5%
Average, 2016–2025
16.2%10 years
Record high and low
18.1% (2015)low 7.82% (1977)

Government consumption (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202614.0Forecast
202514.7
202414.5
202316.4
202215.8
202115.9
202016.9
201916.4
201815.8
201717.7
201617.7

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Argentina documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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