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Germany: Central government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1872–2025 · 132 observations · cgovexp

2025
672 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+4.8%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.9%a year

Central government expenditure

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1e-40.1100100k100M100B18801900192019401960198020002020GermanyGermany
Local currency

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025671,625
2024641,050
2023645,780
2022645,211
2021635,463
2020551,013
2019478,370
2018460,800
2017453,869
2016427,458

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Germany 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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