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Australia: Government consumption

Millions of local currency · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2026 · gcons

2025
660 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+7.3%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+7.5%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$426 billionUS dollars

Government consumption

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2026690,828Forecast
2025660,191
2024615,481
2023568,482
2022531,538
2021487,901
2020452,761
2019414,838
2018381,418
2017359,180
2016341,169

Sources

  • Foster1950–1996
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1960–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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