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Lebanon: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1990–2025 · 36 observations · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
15.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.2 pointsfrom 15.7%
Average, 2016–2025
21.5%10 years
Record high and low
47.5% (1994)low 10.8% (2021)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202515.9
202415.7
202314.7
202213.3
202110.8
202025.1
201934.2
201830.1
201726.4
201628.9

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • Arab Monetary Fund2013–2020
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025

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Lebanon 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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