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Sao Tome and Principe: Government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1980–2025 · 46 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdef_GDP

2025
−2.53%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−3.4 pointsfrom 0.921%
Average, 2016–2025
−1.48%10 years
Record high and low
125.1% (2007)low −25.1% (2004)

Government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20312.65Forecast
20302.89Forecast
20292.70Forecast
20282.90Forecast
20271.61Forecast
20261.02Forecast
2025-2.53
20240.921
2023-2.13
2022-2.24
2021-1.52
20202.94
2019-0.0662
2018-2.02
2017-3.11
2016-5.01

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Sao Tome and Principe 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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