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Central African Republic: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1987–2025 · 39 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−5.49%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.5 pointsfrom −5.03%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.74%10 years
Record high and low
8.58% (2006)low −8.00% (1991)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-9.55Forecast
2030-8.72Forecast
2029-7.82Forecast
2028-7.08Forecast
2027-6.22Forecast
2026-4.98Forecast
2025-5.49
2024-5.03
2023-3.42
2022-5.13
2021-5.71
2020-3.23
20191.33
2018-0.93
2017-0.995
20161.18

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1987–2025
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1988–2023
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Central African Republic 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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