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New Zealand: Central government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1931–2025 · 95 observations · cgovexp

2025
144 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+1.1%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+6.7%a year

Central government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025144,140
2024142,552
2023133,191
2022133,725
2021116,047
2020108,913
201990,817
201883,784
201780,494
201677,085

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

New Zealand 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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