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Seychelles: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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

2025
−0.485%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.2 pointsfrom 0.67%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.38%10 years
Record high and low
7.29% (2008)low −16.5% (1986)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-0.485
20240.67
2023-1.47
2022-1.83
2021-5.51
2020-15.7
20191.22
20180.413
20170.255
2016-1.32

Sources

  • African Development Bank1980–2025
  • World Development Indicators1985–2008
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1993–2024

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Seychelles 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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