The reading right now

As of January 2023, Government expenditure for United Kingdom stood at 20.2%. That is down 0.15 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 20.4%, ranging from a low of 18.4% in January 2018 to a high of 22.4% in January 2020. The current reading sits 0.33 percentage points above its trailing ten-year mean of 19.9%.

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