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Belgium: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1835–2025 · 170 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
54.6%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.1 pointsfrom 54.5%
Average, 2016–2025
53.8%10 years
Record high and low
63.3% (1983)low 4.53% (1872)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203155.5Forecast
203055.2Forecast
202954.9Forecast
202854.6Forecast
202754.3Forecast
202654.3Forecast
202554.6
202454.5
202353.3
202252.2
202154.9
202058.5
201951.8
201852.5
201752.3
201653.4

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1835–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook1970–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1978–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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