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Lesotho: Government deficit

Millions of local currency · 1972–2025 · 49 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdef

2025
988 millionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−72.4%year on year

Government deficit

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-3B-2B-1B01B2B3B4B198019902000201020202030LesothoLesotho
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20312,151Forecast
20302,213Forecast
20292,237Forecast
20282,342Forecast
20272,280Forecast
20262,026Forecast
2025987.8
20243,582
20232,894
2022-2,440
2021-1,709
2020488.6
2019-1,757
2018-1,491
2017-619.5
2016-2,932

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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