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Azerbaijan: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1994–2025 · 32 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
2.56%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.5 pointsfrom 4.05%
Average, 2016–2025
3.01%10 years
Record high and low
21.8% (2001)low −6.44% (2020)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-0.488Forecast
2030-0.606Forecast
2029-0.483Forecast
2028-0.562Forecast
20270.181Forecast
20261.78Forecast
20252.56
20244.05
20237.92
20225.96
20214.21
2020-6.44
20198.95
20185.43
2017-1.34
2016-1.17

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1994–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1994–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2022
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2008–2024
  • 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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