Bahrain Government Expense
Bahrain government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 26.11%.
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Bahrain · government expense data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Bahrain recorded 26.11% for Government Expense in 2020, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2019, the indicator increased by 4.35 percentage points, from 21.75% to 26.11%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (23.12%).
Across the five latest available observations (2016–2020), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 20.90% in 2012 and the high was 26.11% in 2020.