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Tonga: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1999–2024 · 26 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2024
44.3%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+2.9 pointsfrom 41.5%
Average, 2015–2024
40.1%10 years
Record high and low
44.5% (2021)low 18.8% (1999)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203143.8Forecast
203044.3Forecast
202944.6Forecast
202844.9Forecast
202745.0Forecast
202646.3Forecast
202546.8Forecast
202444.3
202341.5
202241.3
202144.5
202037.1
201939.0
201839.3
201739.7
201637.2
201537.4

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1999–2024
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2016–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2016–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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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