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Libya: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1990–2025 · 36 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
77.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+6.0 pointsfrom 71.7%
Average, 2016–2025
58.0%10 years
Record high and low
146.6% (2015)low 27.8% (1992)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203165.3Forecast
203065.6Forecast
202966.2Forecast
202867.1Forecast
202767.7Forecast
202666.4Forecast
202577.7
202471.7
202357.8
202242.9
202144.4
2020123.8
201947.3
201837.5
201734.9
201642.0

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • Arab Monetary Fund2013–2021
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Libya 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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