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Thailand: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1948–2025 · 78 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
22.8%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.2 pointsfrom 22.6%
Average, 2016–2025
22.9%10 years
Record high and low
26.8% (2021)low 8.50% (1949)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203123.2Forecast
203023.2Forecast
202923.2Forecast
202823.0Forecast
202722.9Forecast
202623.1Forecast
202522.8
202422.6
202322.7
202224.7
202126.8
202024.9
201920.6
201821.2
201721.6
201621.4

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1948–2023
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1995–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1995–2024
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2002–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2002–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Thailand 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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