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Denmark: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1880–2025 · 138 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
3.00%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.2 pointsfrom 4.20%
Average, 2016–2025
2.57%10 years
Record high and low
5.30% (2006)low −9.88% (1982)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-0.507Forecast
2030-0.54Forecast
2029-0.515Forecast
2028-0.281Forecast
2027-0.375Forecast
20261.21Forecast
20253.00
20244.20
20233.50
20223.40
20214.10
20200.40
20194.30
20180.80
20171.70
20160.30

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1880–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook1971–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1972–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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