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Portugal: Government consumption (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2027 · gcons_GDP

2025
17.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.2 pointsfrom 16.8%
Average, 2016–2025
17.4%10 years
Record high and low
21.3% (2009)low 8.26% (1953)

Government consumption (% of GDP)

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ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202716.7Forecast
202616.9Forecast
202517.0
202416.8
202316.8
202217.4
202118.5
202018.9
201916.9
201817.0
201717.2
201617.6

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Portugal 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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