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Malaysia: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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

2025
23.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.6 pointsfrom 24.0%
Average, 2016–2025
23.8%10 years
Record high and low
30.9% (2009)low 21.2% (1997)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203121.6Forecast
203021.6Forecast
202921.7Forecast
202821.8Forecast
202722.1Forecast
202622.5Forecast
202523.4
202424.0
202325.0
202224.6
202124.5
202025.0
201923.6
201822.8
201722.0
201622.9

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1996–2001
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Malaysia 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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