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Australia: Government expenditure

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

2025
1.13 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+6.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+6.7%a year

Government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,391,111Forecast
20301,331,559Forecast
20291,278,971Forecast
20281,232,238Forecast
20271,196,123Forecast
20261,170,233Forecast
20251,125,476
20241,055,350
2023988,934
2022928,540
2021879,861
2020931,263
2019720,502
2018679,311
2017647,323
2016617,924

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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