Botswana: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Name: Botswana: Central government deficit (% of GDP)
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Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025: −9.43%percent of GDP
Change on 2024: −2.2 pointsfrom −7.25%
Average, 2016–2025: −4.21%10 years
Record high and low: 19.4% (1986)low −12.9% (2009)

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Percent of GDP

Year	Value
2025	-9.43
2024	-7.25
2023	-4.25
2022	0.00393
2021	-0.0481
2020	-9.45
2019	-6.16
2018	-5.03
2017	-1.18
2016	0.699

Sources

African Development Bank1980–2025
World Development Indicators1990–2023

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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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