The sampleaverage of government spe

The sample
average of government spending ranges from 20.4 percent of GDP in Australia to 23.5 in
Canada; government investment is typically little more than 3 percent of GDP (it is about
4 in the US, but it would be about 3 percent if purchases of weapons and weapons delivery
systems were reclassified from government investment to government consumption as in
the other countries)