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France: Central government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1815–2025 · 211 observations · cgovexp_GDP

2025
22.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.2 pointsfrom 22.9%
Average, 2016–2025
24.0%10 years
Record high and low
63.5% (1918)low 7.73% (1869)

Central government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202522.7
202422.9
202323.5
202224.8
202125.1
202026.0
201922.5
201823.4
201724.7
201624.2

Sources

  • Mitchell1815–1993
  • GPIH government budgets1822–1975
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1870–2020
  • Villa1896–1938
  • World Development Indicators1972–2023
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1995–2024
  • Eurostat1995–2025

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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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