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Belgium: Government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1835–2025 · 184 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govexp

2025
348 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+3.8%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.5%a year

Government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031426,957Forecast
2030413,475Forecast
2029400,160Forecast
2028386,085Forecast
2027374,203Forecast
2026359,846Forecast
2025347,956
2024335,100
2023318,051
2022294,746
2021278,018
2020271,076
2019248,119
2018241,008
2017231,699
2016228,709

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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