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Iraq: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2004–2025 · 22 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
40.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.0 pointsfrom 39.0%
Average, 2016–2025
37.2%10 years
Record high and low
93.0% (2004)low 31.6% (2022)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203141.1Forecast
203040.4Forecast
202939.9Forecast
202839.5Forecast
202739.0Forecast
202640.0Forecast
202540.1
202439.0
202338.4
202231.6
202133.8
202036.4
201943.9
201832.4
201736.4
201640.2

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook2004–2025
  • Arab Monetary Fund2013–2021
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Iraq 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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