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Netherlands: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1880–2025 · 128 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−1.60%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.9 pointsfrom −0.70%
Average, 2016–2025
−0.36%10 years
Record high and low
2.30% (1949)low −8.70% (1995)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

Report error
-10%-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%4%18801900192019401960198020002020NetherlandsNetherlands
ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.61Forecast
2030-2.46Forecast
2029-2.39Forecast
2028-2.07Forecast
2027-2.06Forecast
2026-2.45Forecast
2025-1.60
2024-0.70
2023-0.30
20220
2021-2.30
2020-3.70
20191.90
20181.50
20171.40
20160.20

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1880–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook1969–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1980–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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