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Canada: Central government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1870–2025 · 156 observations · cgovexp

2025
536 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−2.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+6.6%a year

Central government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025536,336
2024550,493
2023474,809
2022441,396
2021495,661
2020560,333
2019350,827
2018327,096
2017314,900
2016295,670

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Canada 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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