United States Government Expense
United States government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 24.90%.
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Interpretation
United States recorded 24.90% for Government Expense in 2023, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2022, the indicator decreased by 0.15 percentage points, from 25.05% to 24.90%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (24.90%).
Across the five latest available observations (2019–2023), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 22.29% in 2017 and the high was 32.27% in 2020.