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 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

    National statistical offices

    Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    Central banks

    National Accounts data files, Central Banks

    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
Albania202512.85percent
Algeria202518.28percent
Argentina202514.93percent
Armenia202510.19percent
Australia202523.15percent
Austria202521.91percent
Azerbaijan202515.53percent
Bangladesh20255.80percent
Belarus202518.90percent
Belgium202523.95percent

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