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General Government Consumption, 1996

1996, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

General Government Consumption, 1996 covers 152 countries. Eritrea is highest, at 38.7334; Venezuela is lowest, at 0.0000. The middle country reads 14.3467. Against 1995, 151 values changed (84 up, 67 down), 1 left.

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General Government Consumption · Data for 1996

HighestEritrea

38.7334

LowestVenezuela

0.0000

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, 1996, 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 152 countries · select a heading to sort

General Government Consumption, 1996: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1EritreaERIEastern Africa38.7334
2QatarQATWestern Asia33.0119
3UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia30.8302
4SeychellesSYCEastern Africa29.0768
5KuwaitKWTWestern Asia27.2614
6VanuatuVUTMelanesia26.9521
7CubaCUBCaribbean26.5536
8SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe26.2301
9BotswanaBWASouthern Africa26.1938
10MoldovaMDAEastern Europe25.9740
11IsraelISRWestern Asia25.8699
12SwedenSWENorthern Europe25.7946
13NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa24.7676
14JordanJORWestern Asia24.5154
15Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa24.3896
16Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia24.3664
17DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe24.1278
18LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe23.9448
19CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe23.8739
20LibyaLBYNorthern Africa23.8342
21IcelandISLNorthern Europe23.8299
22FranceFRAWestern Europe23.7415
23SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe23.0325
24EstoniaESTNorthern Europe22.6162
25FinlandFINNorthern Europe22.1825

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Eritrea38.7334
  2. 2Qatar33.0119
  3. 3Uzbekistan30.8302
  4. 4Seychelles29.0768
  5. 5Kuwait27.2614

Lowest

  1. 152Venezuela0.0000
  2. 151Iraq2.4420
  3. 150Bangladesh4.7275
  4. 149Guatemala5.0803
  5. 148Guinea5.1250

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 14.3467. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −1countries joined / left
  • 151values changed, of 152 in both
  • 84 · 67rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Côte d’Ivoire

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 1996.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 152 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 (1996). General Government Consumption, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/government-consumption/1996

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07Questions

General Government Consumption, 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government consumption in General Government Consumption, 1996?

Eritrea, at 38.7334, of the 152 countries in the file.

What year does General Government Consumption, 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does General Government Consumption, 1996 cover?

152.

Where can I download General Government Consumption, 1996?

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, 1996 the newest?

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

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