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Barbados: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1994–2025 · 32 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
27.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.1 pointsfrom 28.1%
Average, 2016–2025
27.0%10 years
Record high and low
30.6% (2020)low 15.9% (1994)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203125.6Forecast
203025.8Forecast
202925.9Forecast
202826.0Forecast
202726.0Forecast
202626.2Forecast
202527.0
202428.1
202326.5
202226.9
202127.1
202030.6
201922.2
201825.0
201728.0
201628.6

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1994–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1994–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2003–2004
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Barbados 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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