Kuwait Government Expense
Kuwait government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 34.55%.
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Kuwait · government expense data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Kuwait recorded 34.55% for Government Expense in 2006, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2005, the indicator increased by 6.04 percentage points, from 28.51% to 34.55%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (39.39%).
Across the five latest available observations (2002–2006), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 28.51% in 2005 and the high was 46.51% in 1998.