United States Government Spending
United States government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 13.94%.
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Interpretation
United States recorded 13.94% for Government Spending in 2022, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2021, the indicator decreased by 0.50 percentage points, from 14.44% to 13.94%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (14.36%).
Across the five latest available observations (2018–2022), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 13.93% in 2018 and the high was 15.09% in 2020.