Expense (% of GDP)

Name: Expense (% of GDP)
Creator: World Bank
License: https://data.worldbank.org/terms-and-conditions
Keywords: government, fiscal, spending, gdp, world-bank, annual

Commercial use OKFreshLicense: CC-BY-4.0

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Expense - a decrease in net worth resulting from a transaction (current government expenditure) - as a share of GDP, for the 8-country panel (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan, China, India). The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from the Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files (International Monetary Fund); National Accounts data files (OECD). Pairs with the government-revenue-gdp-share dataset: expense minus revenue excluding grants approximates the overall fiscal balance, though it is not exactly the deficit because grants are excluded from the revenue figure. The 8-country panel is covered 2000-2025; values are null where national statistics are unavailable and are never interpolated. Units: % of GDP.

Source: World Bank
Rows: 208
Columns: 4
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Sep 24, 2026
Theme: government

Column	Type	Description
country_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code).
country_name	string	Country name as published by the World Bank API.
year	integer	Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date).
value	float	Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: % of GDP)

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

country_code	country_name	year	value
CAN	Canada	2,000	18.775
CAN	Canada	2,001	18.711
CAN	Canada	2,002	17.963
CAN	Canada	2,003	18.037
CAN	Canada	2,004	17.266
CAN	Canada	2,005	17.824
CAN	Canada	2,006	17.027
CAN	Canada	2,007	16.963
CAN	Canada	2,008	17.083
CAN	Canada	2,009	18.854

Profiled Sep 24, 2026 from snapshot 20260924T123712Z-c75fb2cc9632

Measured

Completeness: 94.5%
Rows: 208
Columns: 4
Columns with gaps: 1

Rows per yearyear · 2000–2025 · 26 years

20002025

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
country_codevarchar	0%	7	—	CAN26 CHN26 DEU26
country_namevarchar	0%	9	—	Canada26 China26 France26
yearbigint	0%	27	2,000 → 2,025median 2,013
valuedouble	22.1%	173	13.73 → 51.96median 22.94	4 outside 1st–99th percentile

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import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/government_expense_gdp_share").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

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World Bank. (2026). Expense (% of GDP) [Data set, snapshot 20260924T123712Z-c75fb2cc9632, sha256 c75fb2cc9632]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-24, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/government_expense_gdp_share?snapshot=20260924T123712Z-c75fb2cc9632

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@misc{dz_world_bank_government_expense_gdp_share_c75fb2cc,
  title        = {{Expense (\% of GDP)}},
  author       = {{World Bank}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/government_expense_gdp_share?snapshot=20260924T123712Z-c75fb2cc9632}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20260924T123712Z-c75fb2cc9632, sha256 c75fb2cc96327fe22e81334a75c25f90ea1e7a0841d4fb2548b7506756508d0d; accessed 2026-09-24}
}

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