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China: General government deficit

Millions of local currency · 1982–2025 · 44 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef

2025
−6.96 trillionlocal currency

General government deficit

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031-15,040,296Forecast
2030-14,202,831Forecast
2029-13,568,607Forecast
2028-13,124,429Forecast
2027-12,663,586Forecast
2026-9,848,210Forecast
2025-6,958,207
2024-9,958,917
2023-8,436,027
2022-7,884,137
2021-7,394,002
2020-6,863,584
2019-3,684,076
2018-2,874,625
2017-2,597,178
2016-2,249,153

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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