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Australia: Central government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1839–2022 · 184 observations · cgovexp

2022
656 billionlocal currency
Change on 2021
−4.4%year on year
Average growth, 2012–2022
+5.2%a year

Central government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2022655,891
2021686,363
2020602,947
2019512,567
2018485,419
2017469,827
2016449,183
2015436,684
2014421,765
2013399,911

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Australia 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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