United Kingdom Government Expense
United Kingdom government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 41.23%.
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United Kingdom · government expense data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
United Kingdom recorded 41.23% for Government Expense in 2023, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2022, the indicator increased by 0.58 percentage points, from 40.65% to 41.23%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (39.72%).
Across the five latest available observations (2019–2023), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 36.41% in 2019 and the high was 47.53% in 2020.