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Samoa: General government deficit (% of GDP)

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

2025
4.68%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−4.6 pointsfrom 9.29%
Average, 2016–2025
2.81%10 years
Record high and low
9.29% (2024)low −13.2% (1993)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-1.54Forecast
2030-1.54Forecast
2029-1.46Forecast
2028-1.29Forecast
2027-0.404Forecast
20260.559Forecast
20254.68
20249.29
20232.70
20225.03
20211.71
20205.41
20191.51
20180.0569
2017-1.98
2016-0.346

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1992–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2010–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2010–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2012–2023
  • 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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