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Papua New Guinea: Government consumption (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1960–2024 · 65 observations · gcons_GDP

2024
22.8%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+0.0 pointsfrom 22.7%
Average, 2015–2024
22.0%10 years
Record high and low
33.5% (1975)low 13.9% (2003)

Government consumption (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202422.8
202322.7
202222.6
202122.9
202022.7
201922.4
201822.1
201721.5
201619.1
201520.9

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Papua New Guinea 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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