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Bangladesh: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−2.93%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.8 pointsfrom −3.70%
Average, 2016–2025
−4.07%10 years
Record high and low
0.442% (1991)low −5.94% (1980)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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-6%-5%-4%-3%-2%-1%0%1%198019902000201020202030BangladeshBangladesh
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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-5.65Forecast
2030-5.73Forecast
2029-5.61Forecast
2028-5.48Forecast
2027-4.70Forecast
2026-4.30Forecast
2025-2.93
2024-3.70
2023-4.39
2022-4.53
2021-3.56
2020-4.84
2019-5.41
2018-4.07
2017-4.17
2016-3.16

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2021
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2021
  • 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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