Global Government Expenditure as a Percentage of GDP

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ) provides a dataset on government expenditure relative to GDP. The data, last updated on 2026-07-12, likely contains time-series metrics for multiple countries. Columns suggest measurements of government spending as a share of national economic output.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between government size and economic growth (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Benchmarking national fiscal policies against global peers (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Modeling public expenditure trends over time (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on the HDX platform by UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ).
• Available under the CC-BY-3.0-IGO open license.
• Data is available in CSV and XML formats.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-12 10:53:39.785740; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global