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Madagascar: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2025 · 67 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
−4.10%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.6 pointsfrom −2.54%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.84%10 years
Record high and low
2.54% (1950)low −14.2% (1980)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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-15%-10%-5%0%5%19501960197019801990200020102020MadagascarMadagascar
Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-4.10
2024-2.54
2023-4.15
2022-5.45
2021-2.83
2020-3.96
2019-1.42
2018-1.34
2017-2.10
2016-0.55

Sources

  • Mitchell1950–2010
  • African Development Bank1980–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2000–2002
  • World Development Indicators2003–2024

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Madagascar 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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