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Jamaica: Central government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1929–2000 · 64 observations · cgovexp_GDP

2000
37.7%percent of GDP
Change on 1999
+3.9 pointsfrom 33.8%
Average, 1991–2000
31.0%10 years
Record high and low
38.4% (1980)low 9.89% (1950)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
200037.7
199933.8
199832.5
199731.8
199637.5
199531.7
199429.5
199331.3
199221.2
199123.2

Sources

  • Mitchell1929–1992
  • World Development Indicators1988–2000
  • ECLAC1992–2000

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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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