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Dominican Republic: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
−3.71%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.7 pointsfrom −3.00%
Average, 2016–2025
−3.64%10 years
Record high and low
2.89% (1953)low −8.07% (2020)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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-10%-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%4%19501960197019801990200020102020Dominican RepublicDominican Republic
Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-3.71
2024-3.00
2023-3.41
2022-3.22
2021-2.52
2020-8.07
2019-3.54
2018-2.45
2017-3.41
2016-3.05

Sources

  • Mitchell1950–1992
  • Central American Monetary Council (historical)1966–2017
  • World Development Indicators1972–2024
  • Central American Monetary Council1991–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2003–2024

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Dominican 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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