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Guinea-Bissau: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
−3.57%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+5.0 pointsfrom −8.60%
Average, 2016–2025
−8.64%10 years
Record high and low
11.5% (1980)low −16.8% (1992)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-3.57
2024-8.60
2023-10.6
2022-9.94
2021-10.7
2020-12.4
2019-7.15
2018-7.87
2017-6.38
2016-9.18

Sources

  • African Development Bank1980–2025
  • Central Bank of West African States1990–2024
  • Franc Zone1997–2019
  • World Development Indicators2017–2024

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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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