France: government spending on policing as sahre of GDP

By 2020, the French general government had dedicated one percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to police services. This is slightly more than in previous years, but stable since 1995.
More information on public spending in France can be found here.

General government expenditure on police services as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in France from 1995 to 2020

Characteristic	Share of GDP
2020*	1%
2019*	0.9%
2018	0.9%
2017	0.9%
2016	0.9%
2015	0.9%
2014	0.9%
2013	0.9%
2012	0.9%
2011	0.9%
2010	1%
2009	1%
2008	0.9%
2007	0.9%
2006	0.9%
2005	0.9%
2004	0.9%
2003	0.9%
2002	0.9%
2001	0.9%
2000	0.9%
1999	0.9%
1998	0.9%
1997	0.9%
1996	0.9%
1995	0.9%

Loading statistic...

Download

Source

Show detailed source information?

Already a member?

Source

Use Ask Statista Research Service

Release date

February 2023

More information

Region

France

Survey time period

1995 to 2020

Supplementary notes

General government sector defined in ESA 2010 (paragraph 2.111) as including "institutional units which are non-market producers whose output is intended for individual and collective consumption, and are financed by compulsory payments made by units belonging to other sectors, and institutional units principally engaged in the redistribution of national income and wealth"
. The data refers to Section [COFOG] of the Eurostat Database Statistic, online data code [GOV_10A_EXP]

* Provisional values.

Citation formats