Government consumption expenditure growth
Compare government consumption expenditure growth across 130 countries and territories using the World Bank's official 2025 fixed-year API slice.
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Key Insights
- •Coverage: 130 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2025.
- •Published range: -16.5516774189587 to 28.8937414302063 annual % growth.
- •Discovery motivation: Worldwide X trends around the Pentagon, Patriot Day and September 11 motivated comparison of annual change in government current consumption, including public services and most current defense and security spending.
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 3.6annual % growth)
About This Statistic
Final consumption expenditure is expenditure on goods and services by resident institutional units for the direct satisfaction of human needs or wants, whether individual or collective. General government FCE includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees), and most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
MapTheory uses only finite 2025 observations mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric country codes. Aggregates, missing values and other years are excluded without estimation. Discovery motivation: Worldwide X trends around the Pentagon, Patriot Day and September 11 motivated comparison of annual change in government current consumption, including public services and most current defense and security spending.
Methodology
Final consumption expenditure is expenditure on goods and services by resident institutional units for the direct satisfaction of human needs or wants, whether individual or collective. General government FCE includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees), and most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uganda | 28.9annual % growth |
| 2 | Guinea | 22.8annual % growth |
| 3 | Georgia | 19.6annual % growth |
| 4 | Libya | 18.0annual % growth |
| 5 | Central African Republic | 15.6annual % growth |
| 6 | United Republic of Tanzania | 15.2annual % growth |
| 7 | Equatorial Guinea | 13.4annual % growth |
| 8 | Nepal | 12.0annual % growth |
| 9 | Vietnam | 11.9annual % growth |
| 10 | Republic of The Gambia | 11.4annual % growth |
| 11 | Ethiopia | 11.3annual % growth |
| 12 | Somalia | 11.0annual % growth |
| 13 | Niger | 10.8annual % growth |
| 14 | Pakistan | 10.1annual % growth |
| 15 | Albania | 9.9annual % growth |
| 16 | Seychelles | 9.8annual % growth |
| 17 | Gabon | 9.7annual % growth |
| 18 | Haiti | 9.4annual % growth |
| 19 | Cape Verde | 9.2annual % growth |
| 20 | Philippines | 8.4annual % growth |
| 21 | Kenya | 8.0annual % growth |
| 22 | Guatemala | 7.3annual % growth |
| 23 | Honduras | 7.3annual % growth |
| 24 | Colombia | 7.1annual % growth |
| 25 | Latvia | 7.0annual % growth |
| 26 | Morocco | 6.8annual % growth |
| 27 | Mali | 6.6annual % growth |
| 28 | Comoros | 6.6annual % growth |
| 29 | Malaysia | 6.6annual % growth |
| 30 | India | 6.6annual % growth |
| 31 | Sudan | 6.0annual % growth |
| 32 | Republic of the Congo | 5.9annual % growth |
| 33 | Malta | 5.9annual % growth |
| 34 | Benin | 5.7annual % growth |
| 35 | Ukraine | 5.7annual % growth |
| 36 | The Republic of North Macedonia | 5.3annual % growth |
| 37 | Cambodia | 5.1annual % growth |
| 38 | Burundi | 5.0annual % growth |
| 39 | Australia | 4.8annual % growth |
| 40 | Poland | 4.8annual % growth |
| 41 | Armenia | 4.7annual % growth |
| 42 | Guinea-Bissau | 4.5annual % growth |
| 43 | Namibia | 4.4annual % growth |
| 44 | Burkina Faso | 4.4annual % growth |
| 45 | Tunisia | 4.3annual % growth |
| 46 | Croatia | 4.1annual % growth |
| 47 | Senegal | 4.0annual % growth |
| 48 | Ireland | 3.9annual % growth |
| 49 | Luxembourg | 3.7annual % growth |
| 50 | Cote d'Ivoire | 3.6annual % growth |
| 51 | Peru | 3.4annual % growth |
| 52 | Mauritania | 3.3annual % growth |
| 53 | Sierra Leone | 3.2annual % growth |
| 54 | Lesotho | 3.2annual % growth |
| 55 | Serbia | 3.1annual % growth |
| 56 | Chile | 3.0annual % growth |
| 57 | Macao | 3.0annual % growth |
| 58 | South Korea | 3.0annual % growth |
| 59 | Mozambique | 2.9annual % growth |
| 60 | Costa Rica | 2.8annual % growth |
| 61 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2.8annual % growth |
| 62 | Estonia | 2.6annual % growth |
| 63 | Algeria | 2.5annual % growth |
| 64 | Indonesia | 2.5annual % growth |
| 65 | Samoa | 2.5annual % growth |
| 66 | Spain | 2.4annual % growth |
| 67 | Canada | 2.4annual % growth |
| 68 | Hungary | 2.4annual % growth |
| 69 | Austria | 2.4annual % growth |
| 70 | Bangladesh | 2.3annual % growth |
| 71 | Czech Republic | 2.1annual % growth |
| 72 | Kyrgyzstan | 2.1annual % growth |
| 73 | Brazil | 2.1annual % growth |
| 74 | Cyprus | 2.0annual % growth |
| 75 | Netherlands | 1.9annual % growth |
| 76 | Dominican Republic | 1.9annual % growth |
| 77 | Uruguay | 1.8annual % growth |
| 78 | Singapore | 1.7annual % growth |
| 79 | United Kingdom | 1.7annual % growth |
| 80 | Israel | 1.7annual % growth |
| 81 | France | 1.6annual % growth |
| 82 | Portugal | 1.6annual % growth |
| 83 | Hong Kong | 1.6annual % growth |
| 84 | Belgium | 1.6annual % growth |
| 85 | Slovenia | 1.6annual % growth |
| 86 | Denmark | 1.5annual % growth |
| 87 | Norway | 1.5annual % growth |
| 88 | Montenegro | 1.4annual % growth |
| 89 | Germany | 1.3annual % growth |
| 90 | Mexico | 1.3annual % growth |
| 91 | Iceland | 1.2annual % growth |
| 92 | Russian Federation | 1.1annual % growth |
| 93 | Slovakia | 1.1annual % growth |
| 94 | Nicaragua | 1.0annual % growth |
| 95 | Lithuania | 1.0annual % growth |
| 96 | Switzerland | 1.0annual % growth |
| 97 | Türkiye | 0.8annual % growth |
| 98 | Sweden | 0.7annual % growth |
| 99 | Uzbekistan | 0.7annual % growth |
| 100 | Thailand | 0.6annual % growth |
| 101 | Italy | 0.6annual % growth |
| 102 | Botswana | 0.4annual % growth |
| 103 | Greece | 0.3annual % growth |
| 104 | Moldova, Republic of | 0.3annual % growth |
| 105 | Puerto Rico | 0.2annual % growth |
| 106 | Argentina | 0.2annual % growth |
| 107 | Ecuador | 0.0annual % growth |
| 108 | Bulgaria | 0.0annual % growth |
| 109 | Mauritius | -0.1annual % growth |
| 110 | South Africa | -0.2annual % growth |
| 111 | Finland | -0.2annual % growth |
| 112 | Belarus | -0.3annual % growth |
| 113 | Islamic Republic of Iran | -0.7annual % growth |
| 114 | Brunei Darussalam | -0.8annual % growth |
| 115 | Sri Lanka | -0.8annual % growth |
| 116 | Cameroon | -0.9annual % growth |
| 117 | Malawi | -0.9annual % growth |
| 118 | Rwanda | -1.6annual % growth |
| 119 | Egypt | -2.0annual % growth |
| 120 | Paraguay | -2.2annual % growth |
| 121 | Sao Tome and Principe | -2.5annual % growth |
| 122 | Romania | -2.6annual % growth |
| 123 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | -3.4annual % growth |
| 124 | El Salvador | -3.4annual % growth |
| 125 | Saudi Arabia | -3.5annual % growth |
| 126 | Djibouti | -4.5annual % growth |
| 127 | Madagascar | -4.6annual % growth |
| 128 | Mongolia | -6.1annual % growth |
| 129 | State of Palestine | -7.7annual % growth |
| 130 | Chad | -16.6annual % growth |
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Data Source
This data comes from Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) (2025).
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