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Russian Federation: Government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1885–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdef_GDP

2025
−3.90%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−2.3 pointsfrom −1.59%
Average, 2016–2025
−1.26%10 years
Record high and low
7.80% (2006)low −7.72% (1905)

Government deficit (% of GDP)

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ForecastPercent of GDP

Compare with other countries →Definition of Government deficit (% of GDP)

Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.76Forecast
2030-2.50Forecast
2029-2.39Forecast
2028-3.13Forecast
2027-2.42Forecast
2026-2.05Forecast
2025-3.90
2024-1.59
2023-2.24
2022-1.34
20210.776
2020-3.99
20191.93
20182.92
2017-1.47
2016-3.67

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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