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Italy: Government consumption (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2027 · gcons_GDP

2025
18.3%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.2 pointsfrom 18.1%
Average, 2016–2025
18.9%10 years
Record high and low
20.8% (2009)low 13.4% (1950)

Government consumption (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202718.3Forecast
202618.4Forecast
202518.3
202418.1
202317.9
202218.8
202119.6
202020.7
201918.7
201818.9
201719.0
201619.1

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Italy 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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