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South Korea: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1911–2025 · 103 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
37.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.9 pointsfrom 35.1%
Average, 2016–2025
33.5%10 years
Record high and low
37.1% (2022)low 3.31% (1918)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203134.3Forecast
203034.6Forecast
202935.0Forecast
202835.4Forecast
202735.7Forecast
202635.6Forecast
202537.0
202435.1
202335.6
202237.1
202135.4
202035.9
201932.0
201829.5
201728.8
201628.8

Sources

  • Cha et al.1911–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1953–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook1970–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1995–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2007–2024
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2012–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2012–2024
  • Min. of Economy and Finance, Korea2017–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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South Korea documentation (PDF)

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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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