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Seychelles: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1983–2025 · 43 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−0.985%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.3 pointsfrom −0.678%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.71%10 years
Record high and low
11.9% (1990)low −16.7% (1998)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-0.633Forecast
2030-0.807Forecast
2029-0.871Forecast
2028-0.774Forecast
2027-1.22Forecast
2026-2.08Forecast
2025-0.985
2024-0.678
2023-1.15
2022-0.765
2021-5.76
2020-15.7
20190.423
2018-0.802
2017-1.67
20160.0176

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1983–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1983–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1993–2008
  • 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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