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Cameroon: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1963–2025 · 58 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
−1.20%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.3 pointsfrom −1.51%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.77%10 years
Record high and low
28.8% (2006)low −11.4% (1987)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-1.20
2024-1.51
2023-0.611
2022-1.11
2021-3.45
2020-3.34
2019-3.30
2018-2.30
2017-4.90
2016-6.00

Sources

  • Mitchell1963–1999
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1975–1994
  • African Development Bank1980–2025
  • World Development Indicators1990–2021
  • Franc Zone1991–2019

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Cameroon 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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