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Austria: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1880–2025 · 125 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
55.2%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.1 pointsfrom 55.3%
Average, 2016–2025
52.8%10 years
Record high and low
57.3% (2020)low 11.4% (1880)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203156.1Forecast
203056.1Forecast
202956.2Forecast
202856.3Forecast
202756.3Forecast
202655.3Forecast
202555.2
202455.3
202352.3
202253.0
202156.0
202057.3
201949.1
201849.2
201749.8
201650.6

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1880–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1972–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1988–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • 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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