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Romania: Central government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1880–2025 · 92 observations · cgovexp_GDP

2025
31.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.6 pointsfrom 31.1%
Average, 2016–2025
27.6%10 years
Record high and low
37.0% (1940)low 7.80% (1886)

Central government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202531.7
202431.1
202329.1
202229.6
202128.3
202029.4
201924.6
201823.6
201723.7
201625.2

Sources

  • National Bank of Serbia1880–1946
  • World Development Indicators1995–2022
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1995–2023
  • Eurostat1995–2025

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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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