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Ethiopia: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−1.19%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.8 pointsfrom −1.99%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.66%10 years
Record high and low
−0.932% (2009)low −8.88% (2000)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-1.53Forecast
2030-1.49Forecast
2029-1.49Forecast
2028-1.69Forecast
2027-1.03Forecast
2026-1.76Forecast
2025-1.19
2024-1.99
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

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

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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