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Australia: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1850–2025 · 136 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
39.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.9 pointsfrom 39.0%
Average, 2016–2025
38.4%10 years
Record high and low
47.0% (2020)low 1.31% (1901)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203138.8Forecast
203038.9Forecast
202939.1Forecast
202839.3Forecast
202739.8Forecast
202639.8Forecast
202539.9
202439.0
202337.8
202237.3
202139.8
202047.0
201936.0
201835.7
201735.8
201636.2

Sources

  • Vamplew1850–1860
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1901–2023
  • Foster1962–1995
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1972–2022
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1988–2024
  • OECD Economic Outlook1989–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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