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Ireland: General government deficit

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

2025
11.5 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−50.1%year on year

General government deficit

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20313,289Forecast
20302,813Forecast
20294,008Forecast
20284,917Forecast
20277,248Forecast
20268,722Forecast
202511,514
202423,077
20237,878
20228,855
2021-5,387
2020-18,781
20191,455
2018335.1
2017-924.4
2016-2,198

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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