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Equatorial Guinea: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
−2.06%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.5 pointsfrom −0.556%
Average, 2016–2025
−0.193%10 years
Record high and low
24.5% (2006)low −34.5% (1988)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-2.06
2024-0.556
20232.39
202211.8
20212.61
2020-2.52
20191.82
20180.108
2017-2.82
2016-12.7

Sources

  • African Development Bank1980–2025
  • Franc Zone1991–2019
  • World Development Indicators2006–2022

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Equatorial Guinea 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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