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Timor-Leste: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2001–2024 · 24 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2024
98.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+19.4 pointsfrom 78.6%
Average, 2015–2024
79.6%10 years
Record high and low
133.3% (2011)low 45.7% (2021)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203181.0Forecast
203083.0Forecast
202985.2Forecast
202887.5Forecast
202789.9Forecast
202693.0Forecast
202593.9Forecast
202498.0
202378.6
202259.9
202145.7
202061.7
201968.8
201885.5
201787.3
2016112.2
201598.1

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook2001–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2010–2022
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2013–2022
  • Asian Development Bank2013–2022
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Timor-Leste 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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