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Ireland: General government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1926–2025 · 94 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp

2025
134 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+7.0%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+5.8%a year

General government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031191,256Forecast
2030180,637Forecast
2029169,420Forecast
2028158,634Forecast
2027147,391Forecast
2026141,429Forecast
2025134,326
2024125,516
2023116,067
2022107,305
2021105,490
2020102,720
201986,941
201882,771
201777,956
201675,554

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Ireland 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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