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Peru: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1900–2025 · 126 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
21.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.8 pointsfrom 22.2%
Average, 2016–2025
22.1%10 years
Record high and low
25.7% (2020)low 3.80% (1916)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203121.0Forecast
203021.1Forecast
202921.1Forecast
202821.2Forecast
202721.3Forecast
202621.3Forecast
202521.4
202422.2
202322.1
202223.1
202123.1
202025.7
201920.8
201821.0
201720.6
201620.5

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1900–2023
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1995–2021
  • ECLAC1999–2017
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Peru 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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