Data · Growth & economic structure
General government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP): Vietnam, 1995–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 9.38 % GDP
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- NE.CON.GOVT.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Final consumption expenditure is expenditure on goods and services by resident institutional units for the direct satisfaction of human needs or wants, whether individual or collective. General government FCE includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees), and most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1995 to 2025 (31 years of data). It moved from 8.19 to 9.38 % GDP, a change of 14.5%. The highest value was 10.92 in 2013 and the lowest 5.47 in 2005. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 8 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (% GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 9.38 |
| 2024 | 8.84 |
| 2023 | 8.81 |
| 2022 | 8.82 |
| 2021 | 9.59 |
| 2020 | 9.48 |
| 2019 | 9.58 |
| 2018 | 9.75 |
| 2017 | 10.13 |
| 2016 | 10.40 |
| 2015 | 10.65 |
| 2014 | 10.32 |
| 2013 | 10.92 |
| 2012 | 10.45 |
| 2011 | 9.98 |
| 2010 | 10.38 |
| 2009 | 5.78 |
| 2008 | 5.63 |
| 2007 | 5.55 |
| 2006 | 5.53 |
| 2005 | 5.47 |
| 2004 | 6.39 |
| 2003 | 6.32 |
| 2002 | 6.23 |
| 2001 | 6.33 |
| 2000 | 6.42 |
| 1999 | 6.79 |
| 1998 | 7.62 |
| 1997 | 8.13 |
| 1996 | 8.35 |
| 1995 | 8.19 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 9.38 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 16.65 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 7.53 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 12.37 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 15.14 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 10.25 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 5.65 |
| Laos | 2016 | 13.97 |
| China | 2024 | 16.71 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). General government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.CON.GOVT.ZS?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name ne_con_govt_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.