Canada Government Expense
Canada government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 19.26%.
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Interpretation
Canada recorded 19.26% for Government Expense in 2023, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2022, the indicator increased by 1.01 percentage points, from 18.25% to 19.26%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (19.28%).
Across the five latest available observations (2019–2023), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 16.40% in 2014 and the high was 28.57% in 2020.