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Canada: General government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1870–2025 · 156 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp

2025
1.43 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+3.4%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+6.0%a year

General government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,739,639Forecast
20301,681,637Forecast
20291,629,816Forecast
20281,579,213Forecast
20271,535,217Forecast
20261,489,207Forecast
20251,425,536
20241,378,401
20231,239,677
20221,157,504
20211,153,053
20201,162,720
2019939,067
2018909,078
2017866,002
2016825,470

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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