Italy Government Spending
Italy government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 18.25%.
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Italy · government spending data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Italy recorded 18.25% for Government Spending in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.17 percentage points, from 18.08% to 18.25%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (18.91%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 17.90% in 2023 and the high was 20.73% in 2020.