Government Spending / Nepal
Nepal Government Spending
Nepal government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 8.38%.
COUNTRY: Nepal
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-22 02:30:10
GM ECONOMY RATING
Nepal · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
68 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
13.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
16.0 / 20
External stability
15.0 / 15
Financial robustness
6.0 / 15
Structural stability
9.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Nepal · government spending data as percent of GDP.
Latest
8.38%
Previous
7.74%
Range avg.
8.11%
Rank
99
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CountryNepal
IndicatorGovernment Spending
8.38%2025 · Rank 99
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Nepal recorded 8.38% for Government Spending in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.64 percentage points, from 7.74% to 8.38%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (8.11%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 6.62% in 2023 and the high was 9.07% in 2020.
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