It means 46% of GDP is government spending. Actually.
Defense spending. Government workers. Infrastructure projects various governments partially or fully pay for. Subsidies. And so on.
Defense spending. Government workers. Infrastructure projects various governments partially or fully pay for. Subsidies. And so on.
However, I’m struggling to square that fact with the observation that the Wikipedia table shows a number of entries >100%. How could government spending ever exceed 100% of GDP given it is counting toward GDP?