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Marshall Islands: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1997–2025 · 29 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
4.79%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+2.2 pointsfrom 2.62%
Average, 2016–2025
2.06%10 years
Record high and low
13.5% (1998)low −22.3% (2005)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-3.71Forecast
20300.0194Forecast
20290.0555Forecast
20280.121Forecast
20270.238Forecast
2026-6.15Forecast
20254.79
20242.62
20231.01
20220.51
20210.18
20202.54
2019-1.80
20182.55
20174.38
20163.88

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1997–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1997–2024
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2004–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2004–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2008–2018
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Marshall Islands 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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