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Nepal: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2000–2025 · 26 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−1.86%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.6 pointsfrom −2.46%
Average, 2016–2025
−3.63%10 years
Record high and low
1.57% (2013)low −7.47% (2020)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%2000200520102015202020252030NepalNepal
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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.98Forecast
2030-2.99Forecast
2029-3.10Forecast
2028-3.18Forecast
2027-3.32Forecast
2026-2.48Forecast
2025-1.86
2024-2.46
2023-5.81
2022-3.12
2021-3.98
2020-7.47
2019-4.27
2018-5.83
2017-2.69
20161.20

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2010–2021
  • Asian Development Bank2010–2023
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2019–2021
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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