Maldives Government Expense
Maldives government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 29.48%.
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Maldives · government expense data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Maldives recorded 29.48% for Government Expense in 2021, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2020, the indicator decreased by 5.87 percentage points, from 35.35% to 29.48%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (25.58%).
Across the five latest available observations (2017–2021), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 20.35% in 2017 and the high was 35.35% in 2020.