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United Arab Emirates: General government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1991–2024 · 34 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp

2024
434 billionlocal currency
Change on 2023
−0.2%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
−1.2%a year

General government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031730,069Forecast
2030681,880Forecast
2029637,664Forecast
2028589,427Forecast
2027546,287Forecast
2026512,881Forecast
2025473,776Forecast
2024434,294
2023434,964
2022427,107
2021402,382
2020399,544
2019436,711
2018418,616
2017403,521
2016444,454
2015370,399

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

United Arab Emirates 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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