New Zealand Government Spending
New Zealand government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 21.06%.
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Interpretation
New Zealand recorded 21.06% for Government Spending in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 0.00 percentage points, from 21.06% to 21.06%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (19.63%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 17.93% in 2017 and the high was 21.07% in 2021.