Denmark Government Spending
Denmark government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 23.22%.
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Denmark · government spending data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Denmark recorded 23.22% for Government Spending in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.25 percentage points, from 22.96% to 23.22%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (23.82%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 22.06% in 2022 and the high was 25.02% in 2016.