Eritrea: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Name: Eritrea: Central government deficit (% of GDP)
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Percent of GDP · 1992–2025 · 34 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025: −2.50%percent of GDP
Change on 2024: 0.0 pointsfrom −2.50%
Average, 2016–2025: −2.05%10 years
Record high and low: 5.32% (1992)low −48.9% (1999)

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Percent of GDP

Year	Value
2025	-2.50
2024	-2.50
2023	-2.90
2022	-1.25
2021	-4.11
2020	-4.36
2019	0.614
2018	4.21
2017	-6.04
2016	-1.66

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African Development Bank1992–2025

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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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