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Romania: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−7.90%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.4 pointsfrom −9.30%
Average, 2016–2025
−5.90%10 years
Record high and low
8.40% (1988)low −9.50% (2009)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-5.24Forecast
2030-5.38Forecast
2029-5.63Forecast
2028-5.75Forecast
2027-5.76Forecast
2026-7.50Forecast
2025-7.90
2024-9.30
2023-6.60
2022-6.50
2021-7.20
2020-9.30
2019-4.40
2018-2.80
2017-2.50
2016-2.50

Sources

  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1980–2023
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1985–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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