Eswatini: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Name: Eswatini: Central government deficit (% of GDP)
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Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025: −2.75%percent of GDP
Change on 2024: −1.1 pointsfrom −1.69%
Average, 2016–2025: −5.30%10 years
Record high and low: 7.21% (2007)low −15.8% (2011)

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Percent of GDP

Year	Value
2025	-2.75
2024	-1.69
2023	-5.47
2022	-4.61
2021	-4.45
2020	-6.54
2019	-6.86
2018	-5.95
2017	-8.72
2016	-5.94

Sources

African Development Bank1980–2025
World Development Indicators1999–2021

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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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