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China: General government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1952–2025 · 74 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp

2025
44.5 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+0.1%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+7.4%a year

General government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
203163,010,057Forecast
203059,676,223Forecast
202956,540,131Forecast
202853,618,163Forecast
202750,765,920Forecast
202647,272,618Forecast
202544,455,209
202444,402,724
202342,366,256
202240,280,556
202137,457,696
202036,053,035
201933,806,697
201830,553,447
201727,128,138
201624,123,760

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

China 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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