Denmark Government Spending
Denmark government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 22.62%.
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Denmark · government spending data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Denmark recorded 22.62% for Government Spending in 2023, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2022, the indicator increased by 0.84 percentage points, from 21.78% to 22.62%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (24.24%).
Across the five latest available observations (2019–2023), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 21.78% in 2022 and the high was 25.80% in 2014.