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Belgium: Central government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1870–2025 · 148 observations · cgovexp

2025
180 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+5.8%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.6%a year

Central government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025179,934
2024170,057
2023165,181
2022152,720
2021146,241
2020142,835
2019127,053
2018122,684
2017119,277
2016118,257

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Belgium 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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