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South Korea: General government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1911–2024 · 102 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp

2024
928 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+9.9%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+6.9%a year

General government expenditure

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10M1B100B10T1,000T192019401960198020002020South KoreaSouth Korea
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,161,000,000Forecast
20301,127,000,000Forecast
20291,095,000,000Forecast
20281,063,000,000Forecast
20271,031,000,000Forecast
20261,033,000,000Forecast
20251,001,000,000Forecast
2024928,300,000
2023844,800,000
2022861,000,000
2021787,200,000
2020739,900,000
2019652,700,000
2018592,200,000
2017557,500,000
2016528,200,000
2015505,100,000

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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