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Switzerland: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1899–2025 · 112 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
34.3%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.7 pointsfrom 33.6%
Average, 2016–2025
34.1%10 years
Record high and low
38.2% (2020)low 2.37% (1911)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203134.4Forecast
203034.5Forecast
202934.5Forecast
202834.6Forecast
202734.8Forecast
202634.8Forecast
202534.3
202433.6
202333.4
202232.7
202135.8
202038.2
201933.2
201832.9
201733.6
201633.6

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1899–2023
  • GPIH government budgets1938–1975
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1977–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1983–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2024
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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