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Rwanda: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1992–2025 · 34 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−4.49%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.7 pointsfrom −6.19%
Average, 2016–2025
−4.97%10 years
Record high and low
2.31% (2004)low −9.68% (1994)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-3.64Forecast
2030-1.98Forecast
2029-3.07Forecast
2028-2.80Forecast
2027-3.00Forecast
2026-4.34Forecast
2025-4.49
2024-6.19
2023-4.88
2022-5.56
2021-6.89
2020-9.26
2019-5.00
2018-2.57
2017-2.54
2016-2.30

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1992–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1992–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2014–2024
  • 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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