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Lebanon: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1990–2025 · 36 observations · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
3.25%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+2.9 pointsfrom 0.394%
Average, 2016–2025
−5.24%10 years
Record high and low
3.25% (2025)low −30.2% (1990)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20253.25
20240.394
2023-1.64
2022-7.49
2021-2.49
2020-5.62
2019-10.9
2018-11.3
2017-7.04
2016-9.62

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • Arab Monetary Fund2013–2021
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025

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Lebanon 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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