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New Zealand: General government expenditure

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

2025
189 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+4.1%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+7.3%a year

General government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031218,596Forecast
2030211,352Forecast
2029208,799Forecast
2028203,409Forecast
2027199,149Forecast
2026194,262Forecast
2025188,693
2024181,336
2023174,867
2022161,348
2021154,443
2020146,226
2019123,690
2018110,661
2017103,613
201699,411

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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