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Zambia: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2000–2025 · 26 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
29.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+3.2 pointsfrom 26.5%
Average, 2016–2025
28.3%10 years
Record high and low
34.0% (2020)low 17.8% (2009)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203129.1Forecast
203028.2Forecast
202928.5Forecast
202829.1Forecast
202729.2Forecast
202629.6Forecast
202529.7
202426.5
202327.4
202228.2
202130.5
202034.0
201929.8
201827.7
201725.0
201623.9

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • 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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