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Sri Lanka: Central government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1947–2008 · 62 observations · cgovexp_GDP

2008
32.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2007
+3.3 pointsfrom 29.4%
Average, 1999–2008
25.7%10 years
Record high and low
41.4% (1980)low 18.4% (1955)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
200832.7
200729.4
200626.9
200524.2
200423.0
200322.8
200224.1
200125.7
200025.0
199923.6

Sources

  • Mitchell1947–2008
  • World Development Indicators1990–2008

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Sri Lanka 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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