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Nigeria: Central government deficit

Millions of local currency · 1950–2025 · 74 observations · cgovdef

2025
−10.4 trillionlocal currency

Central government deficit

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025-10,395,066
2024-5,557,000
2023-8,881,000
2022-8,536,999
2021-9,117,000
2020-7,276,000
2019-6,532,000
2018-5,246,608
2017-4,393,718
2016-3,563,577

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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