The reading right now

As of January 2023, Government expenditure for United Kingdom stood at 41.2%. That is up 0.58 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 41%, ranging from a low of 36.4% in January 2019 to a high of 47.5% in January 2020. The current reading sits 1.5 percentage points above its trailing ten-year mean of 39.7%.

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