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New Zealand: Government consumption

Millions of local currency · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2026 · gcons

2025
94.9 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+4.5%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+7.3%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$55.2 billionUS dollars

Government consumption

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
202697,234Forecast
202594,933
202490,863
202386,124
202281,353
202173,403
202065,310
201959,628
201854,827
201751,395
201648,618

Sources

  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • World Development Indicators1970–2024
  • OECD Economic Outlook1970–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1988–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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New Zealand documentation (PDF)

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Government consumption elsewhere

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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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