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Germany: Government consumption (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1925–2025 · 90 observations · forecasts to 2027 · gcons_GDP

2025
22.6%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.6 pointsfrom 22.0%
Average, 2016–2025
21.3%10 years
Record high and low
22.6% (2025)low 8.87% (1928)

Government consumption (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202722.4Forecast
202622.4Forecast
202522.6
202422.0
202321.6
202222.0
202122.4
202022.3
201920.3
201819.8
201719.7
201619.9

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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