Canada - General government final consumption expenditure (current LCU)

The value for General government final consumption expenditure (current LCU) in Canada was 499,873,000,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 499,873,000,000 in 2020 and a minimum value of 6,824,000,000 in 1961.

Definition: General government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption) includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees). It also includes most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. Data are in current local currency.

Source: World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.

Year Value
1961 6,824,000,000
1962 7,386,000,000
1963 7,974,000,000
1964 8,739,000,000
1965 9,614,000,000
1966 11,290,000,000
1967 13,050,000,000
1968 14,822,000,000
1969 16,793,000,000
1970 19,507,000,000
1971 21,446,000,000
1972 23,864,000,000
1973 27,110,000,000
1974 32,929,000,000
1975 39,852,000,000
1976 45,354,000,000
1977 51,168,000,000
1978 55,348,000,000
1979 61,115,000,000
1980 69,036,000,000
1981 78,836,000,000
1982 89,085,000,000
1983 95,501,000,000
1984 101,800,000,000
1985 110,278,000,000
1986 116,348,000,000
1987 123,514,000,000
1988 132,409,000,000
1989 143,508,000,000
1990 157,310,000,000
1991 168,543,000,000
1992 175,619,000,000
1993 178,438,000,000
1994 179,603,000,000
1995 180,117,000,000
1996 178,506,000,000
1997 180,049,000,000
1998 186,571,000,000
1999 194,737,000,000
2000 211,329,000,000
2001 223,291,000,000
2002 236,096,000,000
2003 249,646,000,000
2004 259,364,000,000
2005 271,178,000,000
2006 288,072,000,000
2007 303,708,000,000
2008 326,759,000,000
2009 345,137,000,000
2010 357,791,000,000
2011 375,141,000,000
2012 384,770,000,000
2013 393,848,000,000
2014 404,297,000,000
2015 415,561,000,000
2016 426,335,000,000
2017 443,184,000,000
2018 462,371,000,000
2019 481,525,000,000
2020 499,873,000,000

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts