Government Expense / Palau
Palau Government Expense
Palau government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 58.95%.
COUNTRY: Palau
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-22 04:00:10
GM ECONOMY RATING
Palau · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
54 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
13.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
14.0 / 20
External stability
1.2 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
5.8 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Palau · government expense data as percent of GDP.
Latest
58.95%
Previous
42.43%
Range avg.
46.61%
Rank
5
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CountryPalau
IndicatorGovernment Expense
58.95%2020 · Rank 5
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Palau recorded 58.95% for Government Expense in 2020, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2019, the indicator increased by 16.53 percentage points, from 42.43% to 58.95%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (46.61%).
Across the five latest available observations (2016–2020), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 39.63% in 2015 and the high was 58.95% in 2020.
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