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General Government Consumption, 2023

2023, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

General Government Consumption, 2023 covers 173 countries. Kiribati is highest, at 64.28672; Lebanon is lowest, at 5.16901. The middle country reads 16.85305. Against 2022, 173 values changed (82 up, 91 down), 3 left.

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General Government Consumption · Data for 2023

HighestKiribati

64.28672

LowestLebanon

5.16901

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, 2023, 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 173 countries · select a heading to sort

General Government Consumption, 2023: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1KiribatiKIRMicronesia64.28672
2Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia57.15951
3Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia52.92077
4UkraineUKREastern Europe41.85569
5PalauPLWMicronesia41.74605
6GreenlandGRLNorthern America41.71012
7LesothoLSOSouthern Africa35.38508
8LibyaLBYNorthern Africa34.99764
9French PolynesiaPYFPolynesia31.77556
10BotswanaBWASouthern Africa29.43433
11Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia27.82688
12Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe26.97169
13CubaCUBCaribbean26.72238
14Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa26.56269
15SwedenSWENorthern Europe26.41756
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe25.68817
17IcelandISLNorthern Europe25.19177
18NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe25.12415
19TongaTONPolynesia25.08760
20KuwaitKWTWestern Asia24.58622
21SeychellesSYCEastern Africa24.52796
22FranceFRAWestern Europe24.13351
23BurundiBDIEastern Africa23.57028
24BelgiumBELWestern Europe23.36605
25BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia22.86825

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kiribati64.28672
  2. 2Marshall Islands57.15951
  3. 3Timor-Leste52.92077
  4. 4Ukraine41.85569
  5. 5Palau41.74605

Lowest

  1. 173Lebanon5.16901
  2. 172Ghana5.49934
  3. 171Sierra Leone5.50037
  4. 170Bangladesh5.66517
  5. 169Cambodia6.07786

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 16.85305. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −3countries joined / left
  • 173values changed, of 173 in both
  • 82 · 91rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Macau27.47240 → 13.86748−13.60492
  • Cuba32.69362 → 26.72238−5.97123
  • Marshall Islands62.07944 → 57.15951−4.91993
  • Djibouti21.58919 → 17.09530−4.49390
  • Samoa20.45638 → 16.46846−3.98792
− Qatar− Syria− 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 2023.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 173 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 (2023). General Government Consumption, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/government-consumption/2023

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07Questions

General Government Consumption, 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government consumption in General Government Consumption, 2023?

Kiribati, at 64.28672, of the 173 countries in the file.

What year does General Government Consumption, 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does General Government Consumption, 2023 cover?

173.

Where can I download General Government Consumption, 2023?

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, 2023 the newest?

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

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