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Mauritania: Government consumption (% of GDP)

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

2025
16.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.2 pointsfrom 15.9%
Average, 2016–2025
14.6%10 years
Record high and low
39.1% (1978)low 10.5% (2011)

Government consumption (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202516.0
202415.9
202316.5
202216.8
202115.0
202012.3
201913.3
201813.0
201713.4
201613.4

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Mauritania 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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