Germany Government Expense
Germany government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 31.17%.
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Interpretation
Germany recorded 31.17% for Government Expense in 2022, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2021, the indicator decreased by 1.49 percentage points, from 32.67% to 31.17%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (28.91%).
Across the five latest available observations (2018–2022), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 27.36% in 2018 and the high was 32.67% in 2021.