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Rwanda: Central government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · cgovexp_GDP

2025
15.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.4 pointsfrom 17.1%
Average, 2016–2025
17.7%10 years
Record high and low
21.1% (1992)low 11.8% (1994)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202515.7
202417.1
202317.4
202218.3
202118.9
202020.1
201918.0
201817.4
201717.3
201617.1

Sources

  • African Development Bank1980–2025
  • World Development Indicators1990–2023
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2014–2024

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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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