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Mali: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1967–2025 · 59 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
−3.05%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.6 pointsfrom −2.42%
Average, 2016–2025
−4.01%10 years
Record high and low
−1.01% (1971)low −11.7% (1985)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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-12%-10%-8%-6%-4%-2%0%197019801990200020102020MaliMali
Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-3.05
2024-2.42
2023-3.66
2022-4.40
2021-4.60
2020-5.59
2019-3.02
2018-5.01
2017-3.76
2016-4.64

Sources

  • Central Bank of West African States1967–2024
  • Mitchell1970–2010
  • African Development Bank1980–2025
  • Franc Zone1991–2019
  • World Development Indicators2000–2020

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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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