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Belgium: Government expenditure

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

2025
347 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
2031421,388Forecast
2030408,099Forecast
2029394,962Forecast
2028381,050Forecast
2027369,002Forecast
2026357,638Forecast
2025347,125
2024334,334
2023317,595
2022294,400
2021277,962
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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