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Netherlands: General government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1880–2025 · 128 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp

2025
522 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+6.3%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+5.1%a year

General government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031672,489Forecast
2030648,607Forecast
2029624,150Forecast
2028596,405Forecast
2027573,845Forecast
2026550,217Forecast
2025521,987
2024490,850
2023461,217
2022429,746
2021409,171
2020390,377
2019349,318
2018334,143
2017321,059
2016316,279

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Netherlands 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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