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Rwanda: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
−5.48%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.5 pointsfrom −5.94%
Average, 2016–2025
−5.61%10 years
Record high and low
0.759% (2000)low −11.3% (1994)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-5.48
2024-5.94
2023-5.89
2022-5.54
2021-6.90
2020-8.87
2019-5.49
2018-4.12
2017-4.49
2016-3.40

Sources

  • African Development Bank1980–2025
  • World Development Indicators1990–2023
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2014–2024

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Rwanda documentation (PDF)

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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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