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Egypt: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1951–2025 · 74 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
−7.30%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−3.8 pointsfrom −3.54%
Average, 2016–2025
−7.74%10 years
Record high and low
0.606% (1970)low −25.1% (1976)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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-30%-25%-20%-15%-10%-5%0%5%1960197019801990200020102020EgyptEgypt
Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-7.30
2024-3.54
2023-5.71
2022-6.09
2021-6.90
2020-6.89
2019-7.90
2018-9.59
2017-10.6
2016-13.0

Sources

  • Mitchell1951–2010
  • World Development Indicators1975–2015
  • African Development Bank1980–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2002–2011

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Egypt 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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