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South Korea: Government consumption

Millions of local currency · 1911–2025 · 103 observations · forecasts to 2026 · gcons

2025
462 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+4.8%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+6.3%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$325 billionUS dollars

Government consumption

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10M1B100B10T1,000T192019401960198020002020South KoreaSouth Korea
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2026476,600,000Forecast
2025462,000,000
2024440,700,000
2023423,100,000
2022409,900,000
2021378,300,000
2020349,600,000
2019327,800,000
2018303,900,000
2017281,900,000
2016264,700,000

Sources

  • Cha et al.1911–2015
  • Penn World Table1953–2019
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1960–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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