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Bangladesh: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
10.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.2 pointsfrom 12.0%
Average, 2016–2025
12.5%10 years
Record high and low
13.6% (2019)low 8.66% (1999)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203116.9Forecast
203016.8Forecast
202916.5Forecast
202816.0Forecast
202714.6Forecast
202612.1Forecast
202510.9
202412.0
202312.6
202213.0
202112.9
202013.3
201913.6
201813.0
201712.2
201611.6

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2021
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2021
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Bangladesh 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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