The reading right now

As of January 2017, Government expenditure for Afghanistan stood at 39.2%. That is down 4.7 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 41.4%, ranging from a low of 37% in January 2015 to a high of 44.6% in January 2014. The current reading sits 6.2 percentage points below its trailing ten-year mean of 45.5%.

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