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Ireland: General government expenditure

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

2025
117 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+1.0%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.3%a year

General government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031168,203Forecast
2030158,729Forecast
2029148,736Forecast
2028139,134Forecast
2027129,368Forecast
2026121,966Forecast
2025116,505
2024115,400
2023112,818
2022107,226
2021105,326
2020102,627
201986,731
201882,722
201778,075
201675,836

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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