Spain Government Spending
Spain government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 19.20%.
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Interpretation
Spain recorded 19.20% for Government Spending in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.10 percentage points, from 19.31% to 19.20%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (19.54%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 18.44% in 2017 and the high was 21.75% in 2020.