Belgium: General government deficit (% of GDP)
Percent of GDP · 1880–2025 · 121 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP
- 2025
- −5.20%percent of GDP
- Change on 2024
- −0.8 pointsfrom −4.40%
- Average, 2016–2025
- −3.78%10 years
- Record high and low
- 3.06% (1927)low −16.2% (1981)
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Percent of GDP
| Year | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| 2031 | -5.78 | Forecast |
| 2030 | -5.66 | Forecast |
| 2029 | -5.41 | Forecast |
| 2028 | -5.32 | Forecast |
| 2027 | -5.19 | Forecast |
| 2026 | -4.47 | Forecast |
| 2025 | -5.20 | |
| 2024 | -4.40 | |
| 2023 | -4.10 | |
| 2022 | -3.50 | |
| 2021 | -5.40 | |
| 2020 | -9.00 | |
| 2019 | -2.00 | |
| 2018 | -1.00 | |
| 2017 | -0.80 | |
| 2016 | -2.40 |
Sources
- IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1880–2023
- OECD Economic Outlook1970–2025
- IMF Government Finance Statistics1978–2024
- IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
- AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
- Eurostat1995–2025
- IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
- AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
- OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
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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