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Liberia: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1964–2025 · 47 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
−1.82%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.4 pointsfrom −2.18%
Average, 2016–2025
−4.33%10 years
Record high and low
2.66% (2007)low −16.2% (1979)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-1.82
2024-2.18
2023-6.99
2022-5.32
2021-2.14
2020-3.55
2019-4.81
2018-4.73
2017-7.22
2016-4.52

Sources

  • Mitchell1964–1986
  • African Development Bank2000–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2005–2013

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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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