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Norway: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1881–2025 · 139 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
49.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.8 pointsfrom 47.8%
Average, 2016–2025
47.4%10 years
Record high and low
55.5% (2020)low 4.07% (1916)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203152.5Forecast
203052.2Forecast
202951.8Forecast
202851.4Forecast
202751.0Forecast
202648.9Forecast
202549.5
202447.8
202345.0
202237.0
202145.5
202055.5
201949.1
201847.0
201748.3
201649.5

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1881–2023
  • GPIH government budgets1915–1971
  • OECD Economic Outlook1978–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1980–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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