El Salvador: General government deficit (% of GDP)
Percent of GDP · 1990–2025 · 36 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP
- 2025
- −2.82%percent of GDP
- Change on 2024
- +1.7 pointsfrom −4.55%
- Average, 2016–2025
- −3.98%10 years
- Record high and low
- −0.177% (1995)low −8.14% (2020)
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Percent of GDP
| Year | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| 2031 | -1.44 | Forecast |
| 2030 | -1.83 | Forecast |
| 2029 | -2.01 | Forecast |
| 2028 | -2.26 | Forecast |
| 2027 | -1.93 | Forecast |
| 2026 | -1.99 | Forecast |
| 2025 | -2.82 | |
| 2024 | -4.55 | |
| 2023 | -4.69 | |
| 2022 | -2.68 | |
| 2021 | -5.53 | |
| 2020 | -8.14 | |
| 2019 | -3.07 | |
| 2018 | -2.71 | |
| 2017 | -2.53 | |
| 2016 | -3.10 |
Sources
- Central American Monetary Council (historical)1990–2017
- IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
- IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2025
- IMF Government Finance Statistics2002–2024
- 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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