Netherlands Government Expense
Netherlands government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 39.97%.
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Netherlands · government expense data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Netherlands recorded 39.97% for Government Expense in 2023, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2022, the indicator increased by 0.60 percentage points, from 39.37% to 39.97%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (39.99%).
Across the five latest available observations (2019–2023), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 37.50% in 2019 and the high was 43.02% in 2020.