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Rwanda: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1992–2025 · 34 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
24.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−3.0 pointsfrom 27.1%
Average, 2016–2025
27.5%10 years
Record high and low
32.5% (2020)low 13.5% (1994)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203124.1Forecast
203023.0Forecast
202924.0Forecast
202823.7Forecast
202723.6Forecast
202624.6Forecast
202524.1
202427.1
202326.2
202228.7
202131.0
202032.5
201927.7
201826.3
201725.3
201625.4

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1992–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1992–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2014–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Rwanda 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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