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Portugal: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1880–2025 · 143 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
44.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.3 pointsfrom 44.1%
Average, 2016–2025
44.7%10 years
Record high and low
51.9% (2010)low 5.60% (1882)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203143.8Forecast
203043.5Forecast
202943.1Forecast
202842.8Forecast
202742.7Forecast
202644.6Forecast
202544.4
202444.1
202342.4
202243.9
202147.3
202049.1
201942.5
201843.3
201745.5
201644.9

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1880–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook1977–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1986–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1987–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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