Vietnam Government Spending
Vietnam government spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 9.38%.
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Interpretation
Vietnam recorded 9.38% for Government Spending in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.53 percentage points, from 8.84% to 9.38%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (9.48%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 8.81% in 2023 and the high was 10.40% in 2016.