General government 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. 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.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
174
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
Albania20259.95percent
Algeria20252.55percent
Argentina20250.22percent
Armenia20254.70percent
Australia20254.83percent
Austria20252.35percent
Bangladesh20252.29percent
Belarus2025-0.30percent
Belgium20251.61percent
Benin20255.72percent

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