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Canada: Government consumption

Millions of local currency · 1926–2025 · 100 observations · forecasts to 2026 · gcons

2025
697 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+6.7%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+5.3%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$498 billionUS dollars

Government consumption

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2026721,522Forecast
2025696,814
2024653,059
2023614,272
2022582,117
2021539,730
2020504,084
2019478,063
2018462,369
2017443,184
2016426,335

Sources

  • Statistics Canada1926–1976
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1961–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1961–2025
  • World Development Indicators1961–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • 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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