Philippines Government Spending
Philippines government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 15.14%.
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Interpretation
Philippines recorded 15.14% for Government Spending in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.58 percentage points, from 14.56% to 15.14%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (13.69%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 11.26% in 2016 and the high was 15.58% in 2021.