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United Kingdom: Government consumption (USD)

Millions of US dollars · 1830–2025 · 196 observations · forecasts to 2027 · gcons_USD

2025
849 billionUS dollars
Change on 2024
+9.9%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.1%a year

Government consumption (USD)

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Recent values

Millions of US dollars

YearValue
2027974,928Forecast
2026922,064Forecast
2025848,709
2024772,574
2023705,132
2022653,320
2021699,550
2020608,267
2019542,841
2018530,463
2017498,519
2016514,683

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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