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Austria: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1880–2025 · 125 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−4.20%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.4 pointsfrom −4.60%
Average, 2016–2025
−3.03%10 years
Record high and low
2.14% (1972)low −11.5% (1931)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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-12%-10%-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%4%18801900192019401960198020002020AustriaAustria
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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-3.64Forecast
2030-3.64Forecast
2029-3.69Forecast
2028-3.85Forecast
2027-3.78Forecast
2026-2.53Forecast
2025-4.20
2024-4.60
2023-2.60
2022-3.40
2021-5.70
2020-8.20
20190.50
20180.20
2017-0.80
2016-1.50

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1880–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1972–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1988–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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