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Israel: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1954–2025 · 67 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−5.10%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+3.0 pointsfrom −8.07%
Average, 2016–2025
−4.26%10 years
Record high and low
0.297% (2022)low −28.1% (1984)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-4.94Forecast
2030-4.83Forecast
2029-4.85Forecast
2028-5.09Forecast
2027-4.23Forecast
2026-5.27Forecast
2025-5.10
2024-8.07
2023-5.38
20220.297
2021-3.37
2020-10.6
2019-3.79
2018-3.58
2017-1.17
2016-1.78

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1954–2023
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1976–2024
  • OECD Economic Outlook1998–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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