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Mauritania: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1968–2025 · 47 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
−0.565%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.8 pointsfrom −1.35%
Average, 2016–2025
−0.0103%10 years
Record high and low
23.7% (2006)low −48.2% (1968)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-0.565
2024-1.35
2023-2.42
2022-3.82
20211.89
20202.23
20192.03
20182.30
2017-0.0308
2016-0.377

Sources

  • Mitchell1968–1996
  • African Development Bank1990–2025

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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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