Laos Government Spending
Laos government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 13.97%.
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Laos · government spending data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Laos recorded 13.97% for Government Spending in 2016, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2015, the indicator decreased by 1.14 percentage points, from 15.11% to 13.97%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (12.73%).
Across the five latest available observations (2012–2016), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 7.77% in 2008 and the high was 17.07% in 2013.