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Denmark: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1880–2025 · 146 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
47.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.7 pointsfrom 46.8%
Average, 2016–2025
49.2%10 years
Record high and low
59.6% (1994)low 4.41% (1914)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203149.0Forecast
203048.9Forecast
202948.6Forecast
202848.3Forecast
202748.0Forecast
202647.7Forecast
202547.5
202446.8
202346.8
202244.9
202149.4
202053.3
201949.8
201850.8
201750.6
201652.4

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1880–2023
  • GPIH government budgets1929–1975
  • OECD Economic Outlook1971–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1972–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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Denmark 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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