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Saudi Arabia: General government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1990–2025 · 36 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp

2025
1.61 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+0.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.3%a year

General government expenditure

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0500B1T1.5T2T19902000201020202030Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,847,761Forecast
20301,797,198Forecast
20291,748,154Forecast
20281,700,108Forecast
20271,653,539Forecast
20261,609,860Forecast
20251,612,586
20241,602,870
20231,515,226
20221,385,625
20211,224,794
20201,174,504
20191,171,860
20181,171,988
20171,001,145
2016887,616

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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