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Australia: Government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1839–2025 · 187 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govexp

2025
1.14 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+7.2%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+6.9%a year

Government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,461,657Forecast
20301,399,926Forecast
20291,345,391Forecast
20281,296,821Forecast
20271,259,020Forecast
20261,205,145Forecast
20251,139,034
20241,062,884
2023994,079
2022929,107
2021879,759
2020931,458
2019720,480
2018679,491
2017647,470
2016618,008

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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