The reading right now

As of January 2022, Government expenditure for Germany stood at 31.2%. That is down 1.5 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 29.8%, ranging from a low of 27.4% in January 2018 to a high of 32.7% in January 2021. The current reading sits 2.3 percentage points above its trailing ten-year mean of 28.9%.

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