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United Kingdom: Government consumption (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1830–2025 · 196 observations · forecasts to 2026 · gcons_GDP

2025
21.2%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.2 pointsfrom 21.0%
Average, 2016–2025
20.4%10 years
Record high and low
49.8% (1944)low 3.94% (1873)

Government consumption (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202621.2Forecast
202521.2
202421.0
202320.5
202220.8
202122.3
202022.6
201919.1
201818.5
201718.7
201619.2

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

United Kingdom 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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