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Lesotho: Government consumption (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1960–2025 · 66 observations · gcons_GDP

2025
34.8%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.8 pointsfrom 34.1%
Average, 2016–2025
36.6%10 years
Record high and low
43.5% (2009)low 13.4% (1970)

Government consumption (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202534.8
202434.1
202335.3
202235.2
202134.7
202037.1
201937.7
201838.1
201739.7
201639.6

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Lesotho 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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