The reading right now

As of January 2023, Government expenditure for Italy stood at 47.3%. That is down 1.1 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 46.7%, ranging from a low of 42.3% in January 2019 to a high of 50.3% in January 2020. The current reading sits 2.1 percentage points above its trailing ten-year mean of 45.2%.

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