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United Kingdom: General government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1830–2025 · 196 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp

2025
1.37 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+4.9%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+5.4%a year

General government expenditure

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10M100M1B10B100B1T10T1850190019502000United KingdomUnited Kingdom
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,631,315Forecast
20301,578,461Forecast
20291,526,663Forecast
20281,487,469Forecast
20271,443,259Forecast
20261,392,597Forecast
20251,371,074
20241,307,403
20231,263,089
20221,164,303
20211,095,358
20201,099,539
2019911,408
2018878,501
2017854,705
2016826,682

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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