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France: Government consumption (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2027 · gcons_GDP

2025
24.2%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.0 pointsfrom 24.2%
Average, 2016–2025
24.3%10 years
Record high and low
25.3% (2020)low 15.0% (1960)

Government consumption (% of GDP)

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ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202724.0Forecast
202623.9Forecast
202524.2
202424.2
202324.0
202224.6
202124.9
202025.3
201923.5
201823.8
201724.2
201624.1

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

France 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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