COUNTRY / INDICATOR

Tunisia Government Expense

Tunisia government expense: latest available value for 2012, historical series from 1972, ranking context and source documentation.

Outdated The newest observation is from 2012 and exceeds the maximum data age. Excluded from the Economy sitemap

Series overview

GC.XPN.TOTL.GD.ZS

COUNTRY: TunisiaINDICATOR: GC.XPN.TOTL.GD.ZSUNIT: percent of GDPSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-09-29 00:24:41REVISIONS: 12ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

33,76Latest / 2012

0,86Change from previous

27,30Series average

44Global rank / 161

Tunisia / Government Expense Unit: Percent of GDP (%)

Selected year: 201233,76%

197220122012

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Year	Value	Change
2012	33,76	0,86
2011	32,90	6,17
2010	26,74	-1,15
2009	27,88	0,56
2008	27,32	1,15
2007	26,17	0,32
2006	25,85	-0,30
2005	26,15	0,38
2004	25,78	0,41
2003	25,37	-0,30
2002	25,67	0,84
2001	24,83	-0,19
2000	25,02	0,08
1999	24,94	0,02
1998	24,91	-0,21
1997	25,12	-2,89
1996	28,02	-0,36
1995	28,37	0,33
1994	28,04	-0,39
1993	28,44	0,78
1992	27,66	-1,78
1991	29,44	-0,97
1990	30,41	-1,46
1989	31,87	1,29
1988	30,58	1,00
1987	29,57	-1,65
1986	31,23	1,03
1985	30,19	-0,77
1984	30,96	0,18
1983	30,78	0,23
1982	30,55	4,15
1981	26,41	0,07
1980	26,33	-2,00
1979	28,34	1,21
1978	27,13	0,61
1977	26,52	2,82
1976	23,70	0,14
1975	23,56	1,89
1974	21,67	0,19
1973	21,48	1,85
1972	19,63	—

Source methodology

World Development Indicators

Indicator note: Expense is a decrease in net worth resulting from a transaction. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.

Source organization: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF); World Development Indicators, World Bank (WB); National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Metadata fetched: 2026-09-27 04:15:44. Open original metadata response.

Revision history

12 detected changes

Source revisions are retained before the current observation is replaced. This table documents the previous and replacement value for reproducibility.

Detected	Data year	Previous value	Replacement value	Source	Source update
2026-09-28 22:24:41	2007	26,17	26,17	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 22:24:41	2008	27,32	27,32	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 22:24:41	2009	27,88	27,88	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 22:24:41	2010	26,74	26,74	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 22:24:41	2011	32,90	32,90	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 22:24:41	2012	33,76	33,76	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 12:20:45	2007	26,17	26,17	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 12:20:45	2008	27,32	27,32	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 12:20:45	2009	27,88	27,88	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 12:20:45	2010	26,74	26,74	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 12:20:45	2011	32,90	32,90	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 12:20:45	2012	33,76	33,76	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Tunisia recorded 33,76 percent of GDP in 2012, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2011, the government expense increased by 0,86.

Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.

Across 41 observations from 1972 to 2012, the average was 27,30; the minimum was 19,63 in 1972 and the maximum was 33,76 in 2012.

Tunisia ranks 44 out of 161 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

The latest value is above the available average for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan.

It is also above the available average for the Lower middle income group.

Ongoing fiscal expenditure intensity.

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