Hungary Government Spending
Hungary government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 20.82%.
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Hungary · government spending data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Hungary recorded 20.82% for Government Spending in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.46 percentage points, from 20.36% to 20.82%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (20.40%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 19.61% in 2018 and the high was 21.19% in 2020.