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Australia: Government consumption (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2027 · gcons_GDP

2025
23.2%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.5 pointsfrom 22.7%
Average, 2016–2025
21.4%10 years
Record high and low
23.2% (2025)low 7.21% (1950)

Government consumption (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202723.4Forecast
202623.3Forecast
202523.2
202422.7
202321.6
202221.4
202122.1
202022.8
201920.7
201820.0
201719.9
201620.0

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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