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🏛️ Government Consumption Relative to GDP

General-government final consumption expenditure as a share of GDP.

📅 2025📏 % of GDP131 entries
38.9% – 21.3%21.2% – 18.0%17.9% – 14.9%14.9% – 11.2%11.1% – 5.4%No data
1
🇺🇦Ukraine
38.9%
2
🇱🇸Lesotho
36.4%
3
🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea
32.4%
4
🇱🇾Libya
32.3%
5
🇧🇼Botswana
31.5%
6
🇸🇪Sweden
26.4%
7
🇫🇮Finland
26.1%
8
🇮🇸Iceland
26.1%
9
🇳🇱Netherlands
25.9%
10
🇸🇨Seychelles
25.1%
11
🇮🇱Israel
25.0%
12
🇫🇷France
24.4%
13
🇭🇷Croatia
24.3%
14
🇧🇪Belgium
24.0%
15
🇧🇳Brunei
23.8%
16
🇩🇰Denmark
23.2%
17
🇦🇺Australia
23.1%
18
🇱🇻Latvia
22.9%
19
🇨🇻Cape Verde
22.9%
20
🇳🇴Norway
22.6%
21
🇩🇪Germany
22.5%
22
🇳🇦Namibia
22.3%
23
🇦🇹Austria
21.9%
24
🇨🇦Canada
21.9%
25
🇪🇪Estonia
21.5%
26
🇸🇰Slovakia
21.4%
27
🇵🇱Poland
21.3%
28
🇸🇮Slovenia
21.2%
29
🇬🇧United Kingdom
21.2%
30
🇧🇬Bulgaria
20.8%
31
🇭🇺Hungary
20.8%
32
🇧🇮Burundi
20.6%
33
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
20.6%
34
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
20.3%
35
🇨🇿Czechia
20.0%
36
🇹🇳Tunisia
19.9%
37
🇱🇺Luxembourg
19.8%
38
🇱🇹Lithuania
19.3%
39
🇪🇸Spain
19.2%
40
🇲🇿Mozambique
19.2%
41
🇧🇷Brazil
19.1%
42
🇷🇺Russia
19.1%
43
🇧🇾Belarus
18.9%
44
🇿🇦South Africa
18.9%
45
🇼🇸Samoa
18.6%
46
🇨🇾Cyprus
18.5%
47
🇷🇸Serbia
18.5%
48
🇲🇩Moldova
18.5%
49
🇩🇿Algeria
18.3%
50
🇮🇹Italy
18.3%

Highlights

As of 2025, Ukraine ranks first with 38.9%, followed by Lesotho (36.4%) and Equatorial Guinea (32.4%).

Across 131 countries and territories, values run from 38.9% (Ukraine) to 5.4% (Egypt), with a median of 16.4%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Africa and 5 from Europe.

Source: World Bank Open Data — General government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP), 2025. Unit: % of GDP.

Source: World Bank Open Data — General government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 15, 2026