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Papua New Guinea: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1983–2025 · 43 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−2.36%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.0 pointsfrom −3.31%
Average, 2016–2025
−4.57%10 years
Record high and low
6.90% (2007)low −8.85% (2020)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20310.173Forecast
20300.155Forecast
20290.20Forecast
2028-0.0622Forecast
2027-0.147Forecast
2026-1.12Forecast
2025-2.36
2024-3.31
2023-4.34
2022-5.25
2021-6.84
2020-8.85
2019-4.98
2018-2.58
2017-2.47
2016-4.75

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1983–2025
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1992–2023
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2015–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2015–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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