Gabon: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Name: Gabon: Central government deficit (% of GDP)
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Percent of GDP · 1956–2025 · 56 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025: −5.34%percent of GDP
Change on 2024: −1.6 pointsfrom −3.77%
Average, 2016–2025: −1.90%10 years
Record high and low: 10.9% (2008)low −20.9% (1976)

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Percent of GDP

Year	Value
2025	-5.34
2024	-3.77
2023	1.86
2022	-0.799
2021	-1.93
2020	-2.15
2019	2.27
2018	-1.36
2017	-2.66
2016	-5.16

Sources

Mitchell1956–2010
African Development Bank1980–2025
Franc Zone1991–2019
World Development Indicators2012–2021

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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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