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El Salvador: Government consumption (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · gcons_GDP

2025
17.6%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.6 pointsfrom 19.2%
Average, 2016–2025
17.8%10 years
Record high and low
19.7% (2020)low 8.26% (1950)

Government consumption (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202517.6
202419.2
202319.1
202218.8
202119.3
202019.7
201916.0
201816.1
201716.1
201616.3

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

El Salvador 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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