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Somalia: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2013–2025 · 13 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
7.49%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.1 pointsfrom 7.36%
Average, 2016–2025
5.07%10 years
Record high and low
7.49% (2025)low 1.82% (2015)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20317.23Forecast
20307.21Forecast
20297.17Forecast
20286.97Forecast
20276.97Forecast
20267.77Forecast
20257.49
20247.36
20236.68
20227.05
20214.85
20205.47
20193.63
20183.40
20172.88
20161.85

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook2013–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2017–2024
  • 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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