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Sao Tome and Principe: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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

2025
0.14%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.8 pointsfrom 0.931%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.05%10 years
Record high and low
124.1% (2007)low −38.3% (2000)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20250.14
20240.931
2023-2.17
2022-2.24
2021-1.75
2020-4.91
2019-1.51
2018-1.00
2017-3.52
2016-4.51

Sources

  • African Development Bank1980–2025

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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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