Australia Government Spending
Australia government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 22.15%.
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Interpretation
Australia recorded 22.15% for Government Spending in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 0.90 percentage points, from 21.24% to 22.15%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (20.87%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 19.11% in 2015 and the high was 22.37% in 2021.