Belgium Government Expense
Belgium government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 39.74%.
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Belgium · government expense data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Belgium recorded 39.74% for Government Expense in 2022, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2021, the indicator decreased by 1.67 percentage points, from 41.41% to 39.74%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (41.74%).
Across the five latest available observations (2018–2022), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 39.40% in 2019 and the high was 45.34% in 2013.