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Finland: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1882–2025 · 144 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
57.3%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.3 pointsfrom 57.6%
Average, 2016–2025
54.8%10 years
Record high and low
64.1% (1993)low 7.23% (1890)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203156.1Forecast
203056.0Forecast
202956.1Forecast
202856.1Forecast
202756.4Forecast
202657.0Forecast
202557.3
202457.6
202355.7
202252.6
202155.1
202056.5
201952.6
201852.7
201752.8
201655.1

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1882–2023
  • GPIH government budgets1948–1972
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1972–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1975–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • Eurostat1980–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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Finland 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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