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Serbia: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2000–2025 · 26 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−2.21%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.5 pointsfrom −1.73%
Average, 2016–2025
−1.44%10 years
Record high and low
1.32% (2017)low −6.91% (2020)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%2000200520102015202020252030SerbiaSerbia
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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-1.93Forecast
2030-1.93Forecast
2029-2.41Forecast
2028-2.47Forecast
2027-2.91Forecast
2026-2.88Forecast
2025-2.21
2024-1.73
2023-1.21
2022-0.141
2021-3.16
2020-6.91
2019-0.00436
20180.778
20171.32
2016-1.08

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2007–2022
  • 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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