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Dominican Republic: Government expenditure (% of GDP)

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

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

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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