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Dominican Republic: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
19.3%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.1 pointsfrom 19.5%
Average, 2016–2025
18.6%10 years
Record high and low
23.5% (1950)low 9.48% (1991)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203117.8Forecast
203018.1Forecast
202918.4Forecast
202818.7Forecast
202719.0Forecast
202619.4Forecast
202519.3
202419.5
202319.1
202218.5
202118.4
202022.2
201917.8
201816.5
201717.3
201617.0

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1950–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1997–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2015–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Dominican Republic 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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