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Turkey: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1936–2025 · 82 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
32.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.5 pointsfrom 32.9%
Average, 2016–2025
32.4%10 years
Record high and low
43.9% (2001)low 10.5% (1945)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203132.6Forecast
203032.7Forecast
202932.8Forecast
202833.5Forecast
202733.8Forecast
202633.2Forecast
202532.4
202432.9
202332.7
202226.8
202130.5
202034.0
201934.8
201833.9
201732.4
201633.8

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1936–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2008–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2008–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2008–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Turkey 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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