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Saudi Arabia: Government consumption

Millions of local currency · 1968–2025 · 58 observations · gcons

2025
989 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−1.5%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+2.8%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$264 billionUS dollars

Government consumption

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025988,544
20241,004,090
2023956,607
2022889,304
2021798,667
2020788,238
2019755,893
2018770,293
2017649,919
2016642,021

Sources

  • World Development Indicators1968–2025
  • Penn World Table1970–2019
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • Saudi Central Bank1970–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1970–2025
  • Arab Monetary Fund1973–2021
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2005–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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Saudi Arabia 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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