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Germany: General government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1872–2025 · 122 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp

2025
2.22 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+5.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.9%a year

General government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20312,700,958Forecast
20302,632,956Forecast
20292,560,787Forecast
20282,475,053Forecast
20272,402,095Forecast
20262,286,353Forecast
20252,224,042
20242,105,750
20232,024,970
20221,937,464
20211,864,302
20201,763,785
20191,610,615
20181,533,329
20171,484,552
20161,429,256

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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