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General Government Consumption, 1987

1987, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

General Government Consumption, 1987 covers 120 countries. Qatar is highest, at 44.267; Dominican Republic is lowest, at 4.008. The middle country reads 15.939. Against 1986, 117 values changed (53 up, 64 down), 3 countries joined, 1 left.

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General Government Consumption · Data for 1987

HighestQatar

44.267

LowestDominican Republic

4.008

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, 1987, 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 120 countries · select a heading to sort

General Government Consumption, 1987: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia44.267
2Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia35.223
3NicaraguaNICCentral America34.233
4SeychellesSYCEastern Africa33.781
5VanuatuVUTMelanesia33.557
6IraqIRQWestern Asia32.238
7CubaCUBCaribbean32.001
8OmanOMNWestern Asia30.422
9IsraelISRWestern Asia29.403
10MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa28.032
11GuyanaGUYSouth America27.396
12BotswanaBWASouthern Africa26.896
13MongoliaMNGEastern Asia26.305
14JordanJORWestern Asia25.657
15NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa24.636
16GabonGABMiddle Africa24.556
17SwedenSWENorthern Europe24.524
18DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe24.350
19ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa23.366
20NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe23.056
21KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia22.801
22BelgiumBELWestern Europe22.522
23FranceFRAWestern Europe22.495
24Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia22.412
25KuwaitKWTWestern Asia22.038

02In 1987

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar44.267
  2. 2Saudi Arabia35.223
  3. 3Nicaragua34.233
  4. 4Seychelles33.781
  5. 5Vanuatu33.557

Lowest

  1. 120Dominican Republic4.008
  2. 119Bangladesh4.143
  3. 118Argentina4.714
  4. 117Hong Kong6.280
  5. 116Paraguay7.339

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 15.939. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031986 → 1987

Since 1986

What changed between 1986 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −1countries joined / left
  • 117values changed, of 117 in both
  • 53 · 64rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Argentina+ Kyrgyzstan+ Turkmenistan− New Caledonia

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 1987.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 120 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 (1987). General Government Consumption, 1987 [data set], describing 1987. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/government-consumption/1987

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07Questions

General Government Consumption, 1987: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government consumption in General Government Consumption, 1987?

Qatar, at 44.267, of the 120 countries in the file.

What year does General Government Consumption, 1987 describe?

1987.

How many countries does General Government Consumption, 1987 cover?

120.

Where can I download General Government Consumption, 1987?

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, 1987 the newest?

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

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