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Bulgaria: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1929–2025 · 48 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−3.50%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.5 pointsfrom −3.00%
Average, 2016–2025
−1.34%10 years
Record high and low
2.70% (2006)low −8.10% (1996)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-3.34Forecast
2030-3.36Forecast
2029-3.37Forecast
2028-3.34Forecast
2027-3.55Forecast
2026-2.83Forecast
2025-3.50
2024-3.00
2023-2.00
2022-2.90
2021-4.00
2020-3.80
20192.20
20181.70
20171.60
20160.30

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1929–2023
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1990–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1998–2025
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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