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Palau: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2000–2024 · 25 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2024
1.23%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+3.5 pointsfrom −2.28%
Average, 2015–2024
−0.909%10 years
Record high and low
6.18% (2018)low −16.7% (2001)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20310.109Forecast
20300.0707Forecast
20290.543Forecast
20280.743Forecast
20270.948Forecast
20260.752Forecast
20251.73Forecast
20241.23
2023-2.28
2022-4.26
2021-9.94
2020-13.0
2019-0.36
20186.18
20174.76
20163.52
20155.08

Sources

  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2008–2019
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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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