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General Government Consumption, 2002

2002, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

General Government Consumption, 2002 covers 161 countries. Timor-Leste is highest, at 147.7350; Venezuela is lowest, at 0.0000. The middle country reads 16.0409. Against 2001, 158 values changed (90 up, 68 down), 2 countries joined.

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General Government Consumption · Data for 2002

HighestTimor-Leste

147.7350

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, 2002, 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 161 countries · select a heading to sort

General Government Consumption, 2002: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia147.7350
2SeychellesSYCEastern Africa46.2622
3EritreaERIEastern Africa39.6567
4CubaCUBCaribbean34.1045
5New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia28.3997
6SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe27.7466
7PalestinePSEWestern Asia27.7237
8BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia27.4545
9Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe26.6230
10Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia25.9510
11GuyanaGUYSouth America25.7276
12IcelandISLNorthern Europe25.3975
13SwedenSWENorthern Europe25.3574
14IsraelISRWestern Asia25.2940
15KuwaitKWTWestern Asia25.2752
16ArubaABWCaribbean24.8902
17MontenegroMNESouthern Europe24.8608
18DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe24.8517
19United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean24.1570
20Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe23.4374
21FranceFRAWestern Europe22.9264
22JordanJORWestern Asia22.6906
23BhutanBTNSouthern Asia22.6885
24BotswanaBWASouthern Africa22.3791
25BelgiumBELWestern Europe22.1389

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Timor-Leste147.7350
  2. 2Seychelles46.2622
  3. 3Eritrea39.6567
  4. 4Cuba34.1045
  5. 5New Caledonia28.3997

Lowest

  1. 161Venezuela0.0000
  2. 160Bangladesh5.0226
  3. 159Cambodia5.5203
  4. 158Guinea5.6181
  5. 157DR Congo5.8792

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 16.0409. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 158values changed, of 159 in both
  • 90 · 68rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ United States Virgin Islands

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 2002.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 161 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 (2002). General Government Consumption, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/government-consumption/2002

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07Questions

General Government Consumption, 2002: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government consumption in General Government Consumption, 2002?

Timor-Leste, at 147.7350, of the 161 countries in the file.

What year does General Government Consumption, 2002 describe?

2002.

How many countries does General Government Consumption, 2002 cover?

161.

Where can I download General Government Consumption, 2002?

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, 2002 the newest?

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

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