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France: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1880–2025 · 127 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−5.10%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.7 pointsfrom −5.80%
Average, 2016–2025
−4.84%10 years
Record high and low
3.05% (1974)low −9.11% (1948)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

Report error
-10%-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%4%18801900192019401960198020002020FranceFrance
ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.89Forecast
2030-3.36Forecast
2029-3.81Forecast
2028-4.26Forecast
2027-4.79Forecast
2026-5.19Forecast
2025-5.10
2024-5.80
2023-5.40
2022-4.70
2021-6.60
2020-8.90
2019-2.40
2018-2.30
2017-3.40
2016-3.80

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1880–2023
  • Villa1925–1937
  • AMECO (European Commission)1960–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1978–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1990–2024
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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