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Ireland: General government deficit

Millions of local currency · 1926–2025 · 94 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef

2025
9.99 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−52.9%year on year

General government deficit

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20312,962Forecast
20302,533Forecast
20293,609Forecast
20284,429Forecast
20274,253Forecast
202610,157Forecast
20259,986
202421,217
20237,657
20228,849
2021-5,378
2020-18,764
20191,452
2018334.9
2017-925.8
2016-2,206

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Ireland documentation (PDF)

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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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