Papua New Guinea Government Spending
Papua New Guinea government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 15.31%.
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Papua New Guinea · government spending data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Papua New Guinea recorded 15.31% for Government Spending in 2004, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2003, the indicator increased by 0.06 percentage points, from 15.26% to 15.31%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (17.00%).
Across the five latest available observations (2000–2004), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 15.26% in 2003 and the high was 19.91% in 1996.