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New Zealand: General government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1876–2025 · 150 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp

2025
190 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+4.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+7.4%a year

General government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031230,076Forecast
2030222,558Forecast
2029219,941Forecast
2028214,311Forecast
2027209,791Forecast
2026202,373Forecast
2025190,057
2024181,616
2023175,935
2022162,645
2021154,425
2020146,230
2019123,634
2018110,636
2017103,598
201699,396

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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