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Bulgaria: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1924–2025 · 54 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
−3.30%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.7 pointsfrom −2.60%
Average, 2016–2025
−1.41%10 years
Record high and low
2.90% (2006)low −11.3% (1993)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-3.30
2024-2.60
2023-1.90
2022-2.80
2021-4.60
2020-4.20
20192.10
20181.50
20171.50
20160.20

Sources

  • Mitchell1924–1941
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1990–2024
  • World Development Indicators1990–2024
  • Eurostat1995–2025

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Bulgaria 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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