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Serbia: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2000–2025 · 26 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
43.2%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.0 pointsfrom 42.2%
Average, 2016–2025
41.6%10 years
Record high and low
46.0% (2020)low 28.0% (2000)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203142.4Forecast
203042.5Forecast
202943.0Forecast
202843.1Forecast
202743.8Forecast
202643.7Forecast
202543.2
202442.2
202340.6
202241.4
202144.4
202046.0
201940.2
201839.0
201738.5
201640.3

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2007–2022
  • 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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