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Panama: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1946–2025 · 80 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
20.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−2.2 pointsfrom 23.1%
Average, 2016–2025
22.2%10 years
Record high and low
51.3% (1982)low 14.3% (1949)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203120.9Forecast
203020.7Forecast
202920.9Forecast
202821.0Forecast
202721.2Forecast
202621.3Forecast
202520.9
202423.1
202321.4
202221.3
202123.7
202027.0
201920.5
201821.7
201721.1
201621.3

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1946–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1994–2025
  • ECLAC2000–2012
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2019–2021
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Panama 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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