Final consumption expenditure

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. Final consumption expenditure can be measured for households, general government, the central bank and non-profit institutions serving households. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
187
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim

    Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    OECD

    National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    World Bank

    Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania202582.04percent
Algeria202560.04percent
Argentina202584.91percent
Armenia202581.30percent
Australia202575.00percent
Austria202573.75percent
Azerbaijan202574.90percent
Bangladesh202578.02percent
Belarus202574.48percent
Belgium202576.27percent

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