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El Salvador: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1990–2025 · 36 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
30.2%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.1 pointsfrom 31.4%
Average, 2016–2025
29.6%10 years
Record high and low
32.7% (2020)low 15.9% (1990)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203129.2Forecast
203029.5Forecast
202929.7Forecast
202829.9Forecast
202729.6Forecast
202629.6Forecast
202530.2
202431.4
202330.5
202228.7
202131.1
202032.7
201927.8
201827.6
201728.1
201627.5

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2002–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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