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Palau: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2000–2024 · 25 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2024
52.6%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+2.2 pointsfrom 50.4%
Average, 2015–2024
47.9%10 years
Record high and low
65.9% (2021)low 34.9% (2017)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203150.6Forecast
203050.8Forecast
202950.9Forecast
202850.9Forecast
202751.1Forecast
202651.5Forecast
202552.1Forecast
202452.6
202350.4
202263.7
202165.9
202058.2
201942.7
201837.8
201734.9
201637.6
201535.5

Sources

  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2008–2019
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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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