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Bulgaria: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1924–2025 · 57 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
41.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+2.5 pointsfrom 39.2%
Average, 2016–2025
38.7%10 years
Record high and low
43.2% (2014)low 24.8% (1926)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203137.9Forecast
203038.4Forecast
202938.9Forecast
202839.3Forecast
202739.9Forecast
202640.8Forecast
202541.7
202439.2
202338.9
202241.3
202141.5
202041.4
201936.5
201837.1
201734.8
201634.8

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1924–2023
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1990–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1998–2025
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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