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Nepal: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2000–2025 · 26 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
21.8%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.0 pointsfrom 21.8%
Average, 2016–2025
24.8%10 years
Record high and low
28.5% (2020)low 11.2% (2006)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203125.1Forecast
203024.9Forecast
202924.8Forecast
202824.8Forecast
202724.9Forecast
202622.4Forecast
202521.8
202421.8
202325.1
202226.1
202127.2
202028.5
201927.1
201828.0
201723.6
201619.0

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2010–2021
  • Asian Development Bank2010–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2019–2021
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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