Eswatini: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Name: Eswatini: General government deficit (% of GDP)
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Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025: −6.14%percent of GDP
Change on 2024: −5.1 pointsfrom −1.06%
Average, 2016–2025: −4.87%10 years
Record high and low: 8.67% (2006)low −9.34% (2010)

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Year	Value
2031	-2.66	Forecast
2030	-3.11	Forecast
2029	-3.52	Forecast
2028	-4.12	Forecast
2027	-5.07	Forecast
2026	-6.88	Forecast
2025	-6.14
2024	-1.06
2023	-0.658
2022	-5.27
2021	-4.55
2020	-4.21
2019	-6.23
2018	-6.59
2017	-5.64
2016	-8.36

Sources

IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1980–2023
IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Eswatini documentation (PDF)

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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