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Botswana: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1999–2024 · 26 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2024
−7.26%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
−3.1 pointsfrom −4.16%
Average, 2015–2024
−4.34%10 years
Record high and low
13.3% (2006)low −13.8% (2009)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-7.46Forecast
2030-7.08Forecast
2029-7.49Forecast
2028-7.59Forecast
2027-7.79Forecast
2026-10.7Forecast
2025-7.42Forecast
2024-7.26
2023-4.16
20220.0356
2021-2.33
2020-10.9
2019-8.53
2018-5.03
2017-1.14
20160.714
2015-4.82

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1999–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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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