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Papua New Guinea: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1983–2025 · 43 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
19.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.2 pointsfrom 20.9%
Average, 2016–2025
21.1%10 years
Record high and low
27.6% (2013)low 17.1% (1995)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203118.4Forecast
203018.5Forecast
202918.6Forecast
202818.5Forecast
202718.7Forecast
202619.3Forecast
202519.7
202420.9
202322.3
202221.9
202122.0
202023.5
201921.3
201820.3
201718.4
201620.9

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1983–2025
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1992–2023
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2015–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2015–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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