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General government procurement is defined as the sum of intermediate consumption (goods and services purchased by governments for their own use, such as accounting or information technology services), gross fixed capital formation (acquisition of capital excluding sales of fixed assets, such as building new roads) and social transfers in kind via market producers (purchases by general government of goods and services produced by market producers and supplied to households). Public corporations were excluded in the estimation of procurement spending.", "type": "float", "datasetName": "OECD Government at a Glance", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-04-01", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Government procurement spending (% of GDP)", "unit": "% of GDP", "shortUnit": "%", "tolerance": 5, "numDecimalPlaces": 1}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "minor", "presentation": {"attributionShort": "OECD", "topicTagsLinks": ["Government Spending"]}, "descriptionKey": ["General government procurement spending is the purchase of goods, services and works by the government. It is defined as the sum of the goods and services purchased by the government for its own use, gross fixed capital formation (infrastructure for transport, office buildings, housing, schools and hospitals), and social transfers in kind via market producers. 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