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Dominican Republic: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−3.56%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.5 pointsfrom −3.09%
Average, 2016–2025
−3.59%10 years
Record high and low
2.35% (1992)low −7.94% (2020)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%4%198019902000201020202030Dominican RepublicDominican Republic
ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.00Forecast
2030-2.26Forecast
2029-2.62Forecast
2028-2.90Forecast
2027-3.22Forecast
2026-3.49Forecast
2025-3.56
2024-3.09
2023-3.28
2022-3.25
2021-2.92
2020-7.94
2019-3.46
2018-2.17
2017-3.12
2016-3.11

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1980–2023
  • Central American Monetary Council (historical)1981–2017
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1997–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2015–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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