Maldives: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Name: Maldives: General government deficit (% of GDP)
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Percent of GDP · 1990–2025 · 36 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025: −2.94%percent of GDP
Change on 2024: +8.6 pointsfrom −11.6%
Average, 2016–2025: −10.1%10 years
Record high and low: −1.46% (1997)low −23.7% (2020)

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Year	Value
2031	-6.72	Forecast
2030	-8.36	Forecast
2029	-8.67	Forecast
2028	-8.88	Forecast
2027	-9.09	Forecast
2026	-11.2	Forecast
2025	-2.94
2024	-11.6
2023	-13.2
2022	-11.2
2021	-14.2
2020	-23.7
2019	-6.54
2018	-5.17
2017	-3.02
2016	-9.93

Sources

IMF Government Finance Statistics1990–2009
IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2025
Asian Development Bank (archive)2009–2024
Asian Development Bank2009–2024
IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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