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United Kingdom: Government consumption (USD)

Millions of US dollars · 1830–2025 · 196 observations · forecasts to 2026 · gcons_USD

2025
828 billionUS dollars
Change on 2024
+9.4%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+3.8%a year

Government consumption (USD)

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Recent values

Millions of US dollars

YearValue
2026826,885Forecast
2025827,603
2024756,433
2023694,018
2022647,989
2021699,728
2020610,107
2019543,980
2018532,124
2017500,122
2016516,610

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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