The reading right now

As of January 2023, Government expenditure for France stood at 47.3%. That is down 1.6 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 48.5%, ranging from a low of 45.9% in January 2019 to a high of 52% in January 2020. The current reading sits 1.3 percentage points below its trailing ten-year mean of 48.6%.

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