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Peru: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−2.36%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.2 pointsfrom −3.53%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.89%10 years
Record high and low
3.35% (2007)low −8.37% (1976)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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-10%-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%4%1970198019902000201020202030PeruPeru
ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-1.70Forecast
2030-1.76Forecast
2029-1.80Forecast
2028-1.93Forecast
2027-1.97Forecast
2026-1.97Forecast
2025-2.36
2024-3.53
2023-2.74
2022-1.38
2021-2.49
2020-8.19
2019-1.37
2018-1.94
2017-2.79
2016-2.12

Sources

  • Kehoe & Nicolini1970–2017
  • Banco Central de Reserva del Perú1970–2021
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1970–2023
  • ECLAC1990–2023
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1995–2021
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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