Saudi Arabia — Government consumption

millions of LCU · Annual · 1968–2025 · 58 observations

About this series

Government final consumption expenditure is government spending on goods and services used to meet individual or collective needs, such as health, education, public order and defence. It is part of GDP and does not represent all government expenditure.

For Saudi Arabia, the government consumption reading stood at 988.54B LCU in 2025. Against 1.00T LCU in 2024, the period change was −1.55%. It was above the selected 10-year average of 824.36B LCU. The corresponding ratio to GDP was 20.7% in 2025.

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Latest observations

2014–2025

PeriodValue
2025988.54B LCU
20241.00T LCU
2023956.61B LCU
2022889.30B LCU
2021798.67B LCU
7 earlier values, back to 2014
2020788.24B LCU
2019755.89B LCU
2018770.29B LCU
2017649.92B LCU
2016642.02B LCU
2015751.87B LCU
2014755.52B LCU
Data release 2026_08_27_1049, published 30 Sept 2026.