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Ethiopia: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1960–2025 · 66 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
−1.73%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.3 pointsfrom −1.98%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.71%10 years
Record high and low
0.247% (1961)low −9.41% (2000)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-1.73
2024-1.98
2023-2.60
2022-4.16
2021-2.77
2020-2.76
2019-2.53
2018-3.03
2017-3.24
2016-2.30

Sources

  • Mitchell1960–1999
  • African Development Bank1980–2025
  • World Development Indicators1990–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2002

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Ethiopia 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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