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Belgium: Government consumption

Millions of local currency · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2027 · gcons

2025
157 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+4.5%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.8%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$177 billionUS dollars

Government consumption

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2027165,102Forecast
2026161,020Forecast
2025156,604
2024149,856
2023141,205
2022131,456
2021120,251
2020112,399
2019110,063
2018106,380
2017102,499
201699,914

Sources

  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • AMECO (European Commission)1960–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • World Development Indicators1970–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1995–2025
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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