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Myanmar: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1998–2023 · 26 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2023
−5.72%percent of GDP
Change on 2022
−1.2 pointsfrom −4.56%
Average, 2014–2023
−4.26%10 years
Record high and low
−1.06% (2014)low −6.99% (2021)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-3.31Forecast
2030-3.48Forecast
2029-3.65Forecast
2028-4.34Forecast
2027-4.99Forecast
2026-5.02Forecast
2025-4.94Forecast
2024-4.11Forecast
2023-5.72
2022-4.56
2021-6.99
2020-6.50
2019-4.70
2018-2.77
2017-3.42
2016-2.53
2015-4.33
2014-1.06

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1998–2020
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1998–2023
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2012–2019
  • Asian Development Bank2012–2019
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2012–2019
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2020–2031

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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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