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United States: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1800–2025 · 226 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
39.8%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.2 pointsfrom 39.7%
Average, 2016–2025
40.2%10 years
Record high and low
47.4% (2020)low 0.877% (1843)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203140.0Forecast
203040.0Forecast
202939.8Forecast
202840.0Forecast
202739.9Forecast
202640.1Forecast
202539.8
202439.7
202339.3
202238.5
202145.4
202047.4
201938.4
201837.8
201737.9
201638.2

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1800–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1990–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2001–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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