Papua New Guinea — Combined government expenditure (% of GDP)
% of GDP · Annual · 1970–2031 · 58 observations
About this series
Combined government expenditure records government expense plus net investment in nonfinancial assets within the source series' coverage. It is a flow over the period. WED's combined-government scope requires source metadata. This series expresses that measure as a percentage of GDP for the matching period.
For Papua New Guinea, the combined government expenditure reading stood at 19.7% of GDP in 2025. Against 20.9% of GDP in 2024, the period change was −1.17 percentage points.
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Latest observations
2020–2031
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2031 | 18.4 % of GDP |
| 2030 | 18.5 % of GDP |
| 2029 | 18.6 % of GDP |
| 2028 | 18.5 % of GDP |
| 2027 | 18.7 % of GDP |
7 earlier values, back to 2020
| 2026 | 19.3 % of GDP |
| 2025 | 19.7 % of GDP |
| 2024 | 20.9 % of GDP |
| 2023 | 22.3 % of GDP |
| 2022 | 21.9 % of GDP |
| 2021 | 22 % of GDP |
| 2020 | 23.5 % of GDP |