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Germany: Central government expenditure

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

2025
670 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+4.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.9%a year

Central government expenditure

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1e-40.1100100k100M100B18801900192019401960198020002020GermanyGermany
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025669,685
2024639,930
2023640,630
2022639,456
2021634,444
2020550,823
2019478,034
2018460,411
2017453,597
2016427,579

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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