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Canada: Central government deficit

Millions of local currency · 1870–2025 · 106 observations · cgovdef

2025
−44.7 billionlocal currency

Central government deficit

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-250B-200B-150B-100B-50B050B18801900192019401960198020002020CanadaCanada, 1870: 854,885Canada, 1880: -2.42 millionCanada, 1890: -860,757Canada, 1900: 2.7 millionCanada, 1910: -3.87 millionCanada, 1920: -86 millionCanada
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025-44,688
2024-76,960
2023-19,262
2022-8,011
2021-81,257
2020-221,891
2019-9,913
20186,753
2017-2,831
2016-2,513

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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