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Nigeria: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2025 · 74 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
−2.35%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.9 pointsfrom −1.49%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.88%10 years
Record high and low
8.01% (1974)low −21.7% (1969)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-2.35
2024-1.49
2023-2.83
2022-3.11
2021-3.75
2020-3.41
2019-3.18
2018-3.00
2017-2.93
2016-2.77

Sources

  • Mitchell1950–1993
  • African Development Bank1980–2025

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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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