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Cape Verde: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
1.11%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+2.2 pointsfrom −1.10%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.81%10 years
Record high and low
1.11% (2025)low −21.9% (1981)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20251.11
2024-1.10
2023-0.278
2022-3.51
2021-7.56
2020-7.39
2019-1.62
2018-2.36
2017-2.63
2016-2.77

Sources

  • African Development Bank1980–2025
  • World Development Indicators2005–2020

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Cape Verde 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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