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Hungary: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1981–2025 · 45 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−4.70%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.4 pointsfrom −5.10%
Average, 2016–2025
−4.59%10 years
Record high and low
1.33% (1984)low −9.30% (2006)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

Report error
-10%-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%19902000201020202030HungaryHungary
ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-5.49Forecast
2030-5.60Forecast
2029-5.71Forecast
2028-5.85Forecast
2027-5.72Forecast
2026-3.84Forecast
2025-4.70
2024-5.10
2023-7.00
2022-6.20
2021-7.10
2020-7.50
2019-2.00
2018-2.00
2017-2.50
2016-1.80

Sources

  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1981–2024
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1995–2023
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • 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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