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Sweden: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1800–2025 · 226 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
50.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.6 pointsfrom 50.7%
Average, 2016–2025
50.3%10 years
Record high and low
68.1% (1993)low 4.75% (1829)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203148.7Forecast
203048.7Forecast
202948.7Forecast
202849.4Forecast
202749.4Forecast
202650.2Forecast
202550.1
202450.7
202349.4
202249.0
202150.0
202053.0
201949.7
201850.7
201750.2
201650.5

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1800–2023
  • GPIH government budgets1913–1974
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1978–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1993–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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Sweden 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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