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Ireland: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1926–2025 · 94 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
1.80%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−2.3 pointsfrom 4.10%
Average, 2016–2025
0.24%10 years
Record high and low
4.90% (2000)low −32.1% (2010)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20310.418Forecast
20300.37Forecast
20290.545Forecast
20280.69Forecast
20270.689Forecast
20261.74Forecast
20251.80
20244.10
20231.50
20221.70
2021-1.20
2020-4.90
20190.40
20180.10
2017-0.30
2016-0.80

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1926–2023
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1972–2024
  • OECD Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1995–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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