Nepal Government Expense
Nepal government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 19.44%.
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Nepal · government expense data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Nepal recorded 19.44% for Government Expense in 2021, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2020, the indicator decreased by 0.72 percentage points, from 20.16% to 19.44%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (16.67%).
Across the five latest available observations (2017–2021), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 12.69% in 2013 and the high was 21.70% in 2019.