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Barbados: General government deficit (% of GDP)

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

2025
−0.309%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.5 pointsfrom −0.836%
Average, 2016–2025
−1.82%10 years
Record high and low
6.28% (1994)low −8.46% (2013)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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-10%-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%4%6%8%19952000200520102015202020252030BarbadosBarbados
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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20310.604Forecast
20300.389Forecast
20290.289Forecast
20280.136Forecast
20270.167Forecast
2026-0.0572Forecast
2025-0.309
2024-0.836
2023-1.57
2022-1.74
2021-3.88
2020-4.19
20192.86
2018-0.321
2017-3.64
2016-4.55

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1994–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1994–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2003–2004
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Barbados documentation (PDF)

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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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