Afghanistan Government Expense
Afghanistan government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 39.22%.
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Afghanistan · government expense data as percent of GDP.
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Labor Market6
External Sector5
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Interpretation
Afghanistan recorded 39.22% for Government Expense in 2017, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2016, the indicator decreased by 4.70 percentage points, from 43.92% to 39.22%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (45.46%).
Across the five latest available observations (2013–2017), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 37.02% in 2015 and the high was 59.48% in 2011.