Chad: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Name: Chad: Central government deficit (% of GDP)
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Percent of GDP · 1972–2025 · 51 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025: −2.27%percent of GDP
Change on 2024: +0.4 pointsfrom −2.65%
Average, 2016–2025: −0.388%10 years
Record high and low: 5.52% (2022)low −7.77% (2009)

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Percent of GDP

Year	Value
2025	-2.27
2024	-2.65
2023	-1.83
2022	5.52
2021	-2.07
2020	1.69
2019	-0.618
2018	1.47
2017	-0.718
2016	-2.40

Sources

Mitchell1972–2001
African Development Bank1980–2025
Franc Zone1991–2019

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Chad documentation (PDF)

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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