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Zambia: Central government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · cgovexp

2025
201 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+14.7%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+13.5%a year

Central government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025201,271
2024175,502
2023152,642
2022139,263
2021134,929
2020113,227
201989,595
201876,313
201760,360
201658,788

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Zambia 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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