Afghanistan: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Name: Afghanistan: General government deficit (% of GDP)
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Percent of GDP · 2002–2025 · 24 observations · gen_govdef_GDP

2025: −0.891%percent of GDP
Change on 2024: −0.3 pointsfrom −0.548%
Average, 2016–2025: −0.646%10 years
Record high and low: 1.63% (2018)low −3.86% (2008)

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Percent of GDP

Year	Value
2025	-0.891
2024	-0.548
2023	-1.33
2022	-0.997
2021	-0.485
2020	-2.24
2019	-1.06
2018	1.63
2017	-0.673
2016	0.127

Sources

IMF World Economic Outlook2002–2025
IMF Government Finance Statistics2006–2017
Asian Development Bank (archive)2009–2020
Asian Development Bank2009–2025
IMF WEO (forecast)2025

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Afghanistan documentation (PDF)

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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