Ireland Government Expense
Ireland government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 19.24%.
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Ireland · government expense data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Ireland recorded 19.24% for Government Expense in 2022, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2021, the indicator decreased by 3.02 percentage points, from 22.26% to 19.24%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (25.98%).
Across the five latest available observations (2018–2022), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 19.24% in 2022 and the high was 37.63% in 2013.