Australia Government Expense
Australia government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 27.58%.
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Interpretation
Australia recorded 27.58% for Government Expense in 2022, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2021, the indicator decreased by 4.97 percentage points, from 32.55% to 27.58%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (27.45%).
Across the five latest available observations (2018–2022), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 25.77% in 2013 and the high was 32.55% in 2021.