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General Government Consumption, 2024

2024, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

General Government Consumption, 2024 covers 169 countries. Timor-Leste is highest, at 60.5713; Ghana is lowest, at 4.8022. The middle country reads 16.7588. Against 2023, 169 values changed (96 up, 73 down), 4 left.

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General Government Consumption · Data for 2024

HighestTimor-Leste

60.5713

LowestGhana

4.8022

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, 2024, 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 169 countries · select a heading to sort

General Government Consumption, 2024: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia60.5713
2KiribatiKIRMicronesia59.0242
3Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia54.5329
4PalauPLWMicronesia38.2979
5UkraineUKREastern Europe37.5594
6LesothoLSOSouthern Africa35.7480
7LibyaLBYNorthern Africa34.2074
8French PolynesiaPYFPolynesia32.0122
9BotswanaBWASouthern Africa31.7519
10Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe27.8615
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe26.5705
12Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia26.1881
13FinlandFINNorthern Europe26.0989
14Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa25.9400
15IcelandISLNorthern Europe25.9266
16KuwaitKWTWestern Asia25.7930
17NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe25.7530
18IsraelISRWestern Asia25.2087
19CubaCUBCaribbean24.8237
20SeychellesSYCEastern Africa24.3395
21FranceFRAWestern Europe24.1796
22BelgiumBELWestern Europe23.7384
23AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia23.6262
24TongaTONPolynesia23.5351
25CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe23.1290

02In 2024

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Timor-Leste60.5713
  2. 2Kiribati59.0242
  3. 3Marshall Islands54.5329
  4. 4Palau38.2979
  5. 5Ukraine37.5594

Lowest

  1. 169Ghana4.8022
  2. 168Lebanon4.9015
  3. 167Ethiopia5.5157
  4. 166Sierra Leone5.6211
  5. 165Cambodia5.8172

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 16.7588. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032023 → 2024

Since 2023

What changed between 2023 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −4countries joined / left
  • 169values changed, of 169 in both
  • 96 · 73rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Kiribati64.2867 → 59.0242−5.2625
  • Ukraine41.8557 → 37.5594−4.2963
  • Palau41.7461 → 38.2979−3.4481
  • Aruba20.9419 → 17.9116−3.0303
  • Fiji21.6551 → 18.9045−2.7506
− United Arab Emirates− Greenland− San Marino− Togo

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 2024.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 169 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 (2024). General Government Consumption, 2024 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/government-consumption/2024

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07Questions

General Government Consumption, 2024: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government consumption in General Government Consumption, 2024?

Timor-Leste, at 60.5713, of the 169 countries in the file.

What year does General Government Consumption, 2024 describe?

2024.

How many countries does General Government Consumption, 2024 cover?

169.

Where can I download General Government Consumption, 2024?

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, 2024 the newest?

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

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