Government expenditure, current US$ billions, 2024.
Government expenditure compares countries by 2024 spending in current US$. The rows use IMF-based totals and also show expenditure as a share of GDP. The United States ranked first at US$10.95 trillion, about US$4.76 trillion above China. France placed fourth by expenditure total in this IMF vintage, ahead of Japan despite Japan’s larger economy.
| Rank | Entry | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | US$10.9T |
| 2 | China | US$6.19T |
| 3 | Germany | US$2.27T |
| 4 | France | US$1.82T |
| 5 | Japan | US$1.72T |
Source 1: IMF World Economic Outlook Database
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Dataset/table: World Economic Outlook Database
Units: Billions of current U.S. dollars and percent of GDP
Date checked: 2026-05-21
Evidence: Supports IMF 2024 GDP, government expenditure and gross-debt rows used in the pack.
Values are current U.S. dollars. IMF 2024 fiscal entries are WEO-vintage values, so no world-share column is used.
Expenditure values use IMF GGX_NGDP multiplied by IMF NGDPD for the same country and year.
Rows use the same IMF WEO vintage, year, GDP denominator and current-dollar conversion.
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