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Italy: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1862–2025 · 164 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
51.3%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.8 pointsfrom 50.5%
Average, 2016–2025
51.8%10 years
Record high and low
56.8% (2020)low 12.7% (1870)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203150.6Forecast
203050.5Forecast
202950.6Forecast
202850.5Forecast
202750.8Forecast
202650.9Forecast
202551.3
202450.5
202353.8
202254.9
202156.1
202056.8
201948.4
201848.3
201748.7
201648.9

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1862–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1988–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1995–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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