Papua New Guinea Government Expense
Papua New Guinea government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 20.32%.
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Papua New Guinea · government expense data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Papua New Guinea recorded 20.32% for Government Expense in 2023, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2022, the indicator increased by 0.87 percentage points, from 19.45% to 20.32%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (19.49%).
Across the five latest available observations (2019–2023), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 16.58% in 2017 and the high was 21.75% in 2014.