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Nigeria: General government deficit

Millions of local currency · 1990–2024 · 35 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef

2024
−4.74 trillionlocal currency

General government deficit

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031-19,805,932Forecast
2030-19,419,394Forecast
2029-17,597,455Forecast
2028-16,659,866Forecast
2027-17,953,118Forecast
2026-23,225,364Forecast
2025-7,778,490Forecast
2024-4,744,111
2023-9,812,339
2022-10,973,198
2021-9,651,449
2020-8,600,311
2019-6,782,276
2018-5,362,205
2017-5,765,928
2016-4,249,774
2015-3,138,876

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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