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Bahamas: Central government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1973–2015 · 40 observations · cgovexp_GDP

2015
23.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2014
+2.4 pointsfrom 21.5%
Average, 2008–2015
21.0%8 years
Record high and low
23.9% (2015)low 7.40% (1974)

Central government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
201523.9
201421.5
201321.2
201221.4
201121.9
201019.6
200920.0
200818.4
200511.4
200411.3

Sources

  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1973–2005
  • World Development Indicators1990–2015
  • ECLAC2008–2015

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Bahamas 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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