Iran Government Spending
Iran government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 13.29%.
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Iran · government spending data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Iran recorded 13.29% for Government Spending in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.21 percentage points, from 13.08% to 13.29%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (13.95%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 12.55% in 2023 and the high was 15.16% in 2018.