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Samoa: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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

2025
26.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.1 pointsfrom 26.3%
Average, 2016–2025
29.7%10 years
Record high and low
54.1% (1994)low 26.3% (2024)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203131.2Forecast
203031.2Forecast
202931.1Forecast
202831.0Forecast
202730.6Forecast
202629.9Forecast
202526.4
202426.3
202328.8
202231.1
202134.1
202030.5
201931.8
201830.0
201730.9
201627.3

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1992–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2010–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2010–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2012–2023
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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