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France: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1880–2025 · 127 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
57.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.3 pointsfrom 57.3%
Average, 2016–2025
57.8%10 years
Record high and low
61.7% (2020)low 9.65% (1912)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203156.2Forecast
203056.6Forecast
202956.9Forecast
202857.2Forecast
202757.6Forecast
202657.2Forecast
202557.5
202457.3
202357.0
202258.4
202159.5
202061.7
201955.3
201856.3
201757.6
201657.4

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1880–2023
  • AMECO (European Commission)1978–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1978–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1990–2024
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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