Canada Government Spending
Canada government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 21.91%.
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Interpretation
Canada recorded 21.91% for Government Spending in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.47 percentage points, from 21.44% to 21.91%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (21.16%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 20.30% in 2022 and the high was 22.70% in 2020.