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Cuba: Government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1903–2018 · 68 observations · govexp_GDP

2018
67.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2017
+0.1 pointsfrom 67.0%
Average, 2009–2018
66.9%10 years
Record high and low
78.1% (2008)low 4.70% (1920)

Government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
201867.1
201767.0
201663.3
201563.4
201460.8
201364.6
201270.1
201166.7
201070.0
200975.6

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Cuba 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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