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General Government Consumption, 1982

1982, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

General Government Consumption, 1982 covers 118 countries. Mauritania is highest, at 36.790; Brunei is lowest, at 2.637. The middle country reads 15.745. Against 1981, 115 values changed (75 up, 40 down), 3 countries joined, 1 left.

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General Government Consumption · Data for 1982

HighestMauritania

36.790

LowestBrunei

2.637

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of General Government Consumption, 1982, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 118 countries · select a heading to sort

General Government Consumption, 1982: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa36.790
2IraqIRQWestern Asia35.142
3SeychellesSYCEastern Africa34.463
4IsraelISRWestern Asia33.708
5New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia32.935
6GambiaGMBWestern Africa31.901
7CubaCUBCaribbean31.729
8Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa29.438
9JordanJORWestern Asia28.962
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe27.502
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe27.390
12Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia26.761
13Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia26.184
14QatarQATWestern Asia26.118
15OmanOMNWestern Asia26.106
16BotswanaBWASouthern Africa26.051
17GuyanaGUYSouth America25.795
18BelgiumBELWestern Europe23.762
19NicaraguaNICCentral America23.443
20NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe23.417
21CanadaCANNorthern America22.949
22FranceFRAWestern Europe22.618
23MongoliaMNGEastern Asia22.614
24IrelandIRLNorthern Europe22.000
25SyriaSYRWestern Asia21.956

02In 1982

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mauritania36.790
  2. 2Iraq35.142
  3. 3Seychelles34.463
  4. 4Israel33.708
  5. 5New Caledonia32.935

Lowest

  1. 118Brunei2.637
  2. 117Bangladesh4.432
  3. 116Chad5.471
  4. 115Macau5.806
  5. 114Ghana6.481

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 15.745. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031981 → 1982

Since 1981

What changed between 1981 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −1countries joined / left
  • 115values changed, of 115 in both
  • 75 · 40rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Macau+ Chad+ Uganda− Lesotho

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1982.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 118 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1982). General Government Consumption, 1982 [data set], describing 1982. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/government-consumption/1982

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07Questions

General Government Consumption, 1982: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government consumption in General Government Consumption, 1982?

Mauritania, at 36.790, of the 118 countries in the file.

What year does General Government Consumption, 1982 describe?

1982.

How many countries does General Government Consumption, 1982 cover?

118.

Where can I download General Government Consumption, 1982?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is General Government Consumption, 1982 the newest?

No. The newest held here is General Government Consumption, 2025.

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