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Greece: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1880–2025 · 125 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
48.3%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.2 pointsfrom 48.1%
Average, 2016–2025
51.0%10 years
Record high and low
63.9% (2013)low 15.2% (1882)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203147.2Forecast
203047.1Forecast
202947.0Forecast
202846.8Forecast
202746.9Forecast
202648.8Forecast
202548.3
202448.1
202349.5
202253.1
202156.6
202059.3
201947.7
201848.6
201748.6
201650.3

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1880–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1995–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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