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Philippines: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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

2025
24.3%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.4 pointsfrom 25.6%
Average, 2016–2025
23.5%10 years
Record high and low
27.2% (2021)low 6.28% (1947)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203121.7Forecast
203021.8Forecast
202922.3Forecast
202822.7Forecast
202723.1Forecast
202624.0Forecast
202524.3
202425.6
202324.7
202225.9
202127.2
202025.9
201921.7
201820.9
201719.5
201619.0

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1946–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1989–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2012–2023
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Philippines 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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