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Namibia: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1990–2025 · 36 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
−6.35%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−3.5 pointsfrom −2.81%
Average, 2016–2025
−8.43%10 years
Record high and low
4.59% (2008)low −12.5% (2017)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-6.35
2024-2.81
2023-2.66
2022-9.35
2021-12.1
2020-12.1
2019-5.70
2018-9.35
2017-12.5
2016-11.3

Sources

  • African Development Bank1990–2025
  • World Development Indicators1991–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2016–2024

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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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