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Ecuador: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1995–2025 · 31 observations · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−2.88%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.6 pointsfrom −1.28%
Average, 2016–2025
−3.89%10 years
Record high and low
2.92% (2006)low −10.3% (2016)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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-12%-10%-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%4%1995200020052010201520202025EcuadorEcuador
Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-2.88
2024-1.28
2023-3.49
20220.0436
2021-1.59
2020-7.38
2019-3.47
2018-2.80
2017-5.77
2016-10.3

Sources

  • Kehoe & Nicolini1995–2017
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1995–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2013–2022
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025

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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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