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Germany: Government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1872–2025 · 132 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govexp

2025
2.26 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+5.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+5.1%a year

Government expenditure

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1e-40.1100100k100M100B18801900192019401960198020002020GermanyGermany
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20312,779,815Forecast
20302,711,589Forecast
20292,639,148Forecast
20282,552,856Forecast
20272,478,770Forecast
20262,369,968Forecast
20252,259,060
20242,139,717
20232,031,434
20221,939,208
20211,865,819
20201,763,784
20191,610,615
20181,533,328
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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