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Singapore: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1972–2025 · 54 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
15.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.2 pointsfrom 14.3%
Average, 2016–2025
15.5%10 years
Record high and low
24.3% (1987)low 9.01% (2007)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203117.7Forecast
203017.7Forecast
202917.4Forecast
202817.0Forecast
202716.5Forecast
202616.1Forecast
202515.5
202414.3
202314.6
202214.9
202115.4
202024.0
201914.0
201813.9
201713.6
201615.2

Sources

  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1972–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2024
  • 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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