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Expense (% of GDP)

For 2024, Expense (% of GDP) is led by Botswana at 26.53%. This page combines ranking, historical trend, and map-based distribution.

Expense is a decrease in net worth resulting from a transaction. 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.

Countries ranked 2
Snapshot year 2024
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0.06.613.319.926.5BotswanaBotswana: 26.53%26.5TanzaniaTanzania: 16.34%16.3
Rank Country Value
1 Botswana 26.53%
2 Tanzania 16.34%
Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.

Analytical takeaways

  • Botswana sits at the top of the Expense (% of GDP) distribution in 2024 at 26.53%, with a lead of 10.19% over the next country.
  • The median country in the current global snapshot is Botswana at 26.53%, which helps frame the center of the distribution rather than only the leaders.
  • At the lower end of the current sample sits Tanzania (16.34%), and the page currently covers 2 countries.

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