Gambia: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Name: Gambia: Central government deficit (% of GDP)
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Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025: −1.30%percent of GDP
Change on 2024: +2.7 pointsfrom −4.04%
Average, 2016–2025: −4.28%10 years
Record high and low: 2.05% (1988)low −23.0% (1980)

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Percent of GDP

Year	Value
2025	-1.30
2024	-4.04
2023	-3.56
2022	-5.42
2021	-5.95
2020	-3.76
2019	-3.95
2018	-3.92
2017	-4.35
2016	-6.54

Sources

African Development Bank1980–2025
IMF Government Finance Statistics1990
World Development Indicators1990

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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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