Samoa Government Spending
Samoa government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 18.58%.
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Samoa · government spending data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Samoa recorded 18.58% for Government Spending in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 1.82 percentage points, from 16.76% to 18.58%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (15.54%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 12.12% in 2017 and the high was 20.46% in 2022.