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Argentina: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1865–2025 · 161 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−0.381%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.8 pointsfrom 0.458%
Average, 2016–2025
−4.53%10 years
Record high and low
3.97% (2004)low −9.31% (1898)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20311.28Forecast
20301.14Forecast
20290.824Forecast
20280.28Forecast
20270.374Forecast
20260.451Forecast
2025-0.381
20240.458
2023-5.33
2022-3.84
2021-4.33
2020-8.67
2019-4.44
2018-5.44
2017-6.69
2016-6.65

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1865–2023
  • Kehoe & Nicolini1961–2017
  • Ferreres et al.1961–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1993–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2002–2004
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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