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Cape Verde: Central government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · cgovexp_GDP

2025
23.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.6 pointsfrom 25.3%
Average, 2016–2025
27.6%10 years
Record high and low
58.3% (1983)low 22.9% (2008)

Central government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202523.7
202425.3
202325.7
202226.1
202130.5
202033.3
201927.5
201827.5
201728.0
201628.1

Sources

  • African Development Bank1980–2025
  • AFRISTAT1990–2022
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2005–2017
  • World Development Indicators2005–2020

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Cape Verde 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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