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Malaysia: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1990–2025 · 36 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−3.54%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.1 pointsfrom −3.45%
Average, 2016–2025
−3.63%10 years
Record high and low
5.45% (1994)low −6.05% (2000)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%4%6%19902000201020202030MalaysiaMalaysia
ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.72Forecast
2030-2.73Forecast
2029-2.74Forecast
2028-2.74Forecast
2027-3.02Forecast
2026-3.31Forecast
2025-3.54
2024-3.45
2023-4.11
2022-4.56
2021-6.03
2020-4.90
2019-2.01
2018-2.64
2017-2.41
2016-2.60

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1996–2001
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Malaysia 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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