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Israel: General government deficit (% of GDP)

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

2025
−5.22%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+2.3 pointsfrom −7.50%
Average, 2016–2025
−4.07%10 years
Record high and low
0.443% (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
2027-4.86Forecast
2026-4.81Forecast
2025-5.22
2024-7.50
2023-4.09
20220.443
2021-3.38
2020-10.7
2019-3.80
2018-3.55
2017-1.14
2016-1.79

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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