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Malta: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1995–2025 · 31 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−2.20%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.2 pointsfrom −3.40%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.37%10 years
Record high and low
3.40% (2017)low −9.20% (1998)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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-10%-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%4%19952000200520102015202020252030MaltaMalta
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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.62Forecast
2030-2.58Forecast
2029-2.55Forecast
2028-2.58Forecast
2027-2.70Forecast
2026-2.88Forecast
2025-2.20
2024-3.40
2023-4.40
2022-5.30
2021-6.90
2020-8.70
20190.80
20181.90
20173.40
20161.10

Sources

  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1995–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027

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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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