Government > Government spending > Government expenditure as a percentage of GDP: Countries Compared

DEFINITION: Government expenditure as a percentage of GDP. Figures are according to 2011 Index of Economic Freedom.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	East Timor	97%	2011
2	Cuba	78.1%	2011
3	Denmark	51.8%	2011
4	Bosnia and Herzegovina	50.3%	2011
5	Belgium	50%	2011
6	Belarus	49.6%	2011
7	Austria	49%	2011
8	Czech Republic	42.9%	2011
9	Cyprus	42.6%	2011
10	Dominica	42.5%	2011
11	Angola	41.6%	2011
12	Barbados	41.3%	2011
13	Brazil	41%	2011
14	Ecuador	40.8%	2011
15	Croatia	40.7%	2011
16	Djibouti	40.6%	2011
17	Botswana	40.2%	2011
18	Burundi	40%	2011
19	Estonia	39.9%	2011
20	Canada	39.7%	2011
21	Bulgaria	37.3%	2011
22	Algeria	35.4%	2011
23	Bolivia	34.8%	2011
24	Bhutan	34.6%	2011
25	Australia	34.3%	2011
26	Egypt	34%	2011
27	Albania	32.3%	2011
=28	Cape Verde	31.1%	2011
=28	Azerbaijan	31.1%	2011
30	Belize	28.2%	2011
31	Comoros	27.2%	2011
32	Colombia	26.5%	2011
33	Bahrain	25.7%	2011
34	Equatorial Guinea	25.5%	2011
35	Argentina	24.7%	2011
36	Benin	23%	2011
37	Democratic Republic of the Congo	22.7%	2011
38	Chad	22.1%	2011
39	Armenia	21.8%	2011
40	Burkina Faso	21.6%	2011
41	Chile	21.1%	2011
42	Costa Rica	20.9%	2011
43	China	20.8%	2011
44	El Salvador	20%	2011
45	Cote d'Ivoire	19.7%	2011
46	Dominican Republic	19.1%	2011
47	Cameroon	18.5%	2011
48	Bangladesh	15.9%	2011
49	Central African Republic	15.5%	2011
50	Cambodia	13.9%	2011
51	Burma	8%	2011

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