Belgium Government Spending
Belgium government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 23.95%.
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Belgium · government spending data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Belgium recorded 23.95% for Government Spending in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.21 percentage points, from 23.74% to 23.95%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (23.50%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 22.96% in 2019 and the high was 24.24% in 2020.