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Paraguay: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1967–2025 · 59 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
19.6%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.3 pointsfrom 20.9%
Average, 2016–2025
20.0%10 years
Record high and low
22.6% (2020)low 9.25% (1986)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203119.6Forecast
203019.6Forecast
202919.5Forecast
202819.4Forecast
202719.3Forecast
202619.3Forecast
202519.6
202420.9
202321.5
202220.2
202120.5
202022.6
201920.1
201818.5
201718.1
201617.7

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1967–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • ECLAC2003–2018
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2005–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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