Public spending as a percentage of GDP was 39.8% for the years 1980-1997.

This table includes government deficit as a percentage of GDP.

The aim is still to bring the deficit as a percentage of GDP down to 4.4% by 2012.

In 2010, overall tax revenue as a percentage of GDP was 17.2%.

The deficit has been reducing as a percentage of GDP.

We're number one in budget deficit (as a percentage of GDP).

Total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP was 7.4% in 2002.

And our deficit then, as a percentage of GDP, was smaller than it is today by almost 4 percent.

How high as a percentage of GDP should state spending be?

Tax effort as a percentage of GDP has averaged at roughly 13% for the years 2001-2010.