Iraq Government Expense
Iraq government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 27.61%.
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Iraq · government expense data as percent of GDP.
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
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Interpretation
Iraq recorded 27.61% for Government Expense in 2019, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2018, the indicator increased by 3.13 percentage points, from 24.48% to 27.61%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 6 available observations (26.23%).
Across the five latest available observations (2015–2019), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 6 available observations, the low was 24.48% in 2018 and the high was 27.61% in 2019.