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Somalia: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2013–2025 · 13 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−0.297%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.5 pointsfrom 0.165%
Average, 2016–2025
0.0485%10 years
Record high and low
0.461% (2016)low −0.882% (2021)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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-2.5%-2%-1.5%-1%-0.5%0%0.5%2015202020252030SomaliaSomalia
ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.11Forecast
2030-1.99Forecast
2029-1.97Forecast
2028-1.22Forecast
2027-0.777Forecast
2026-0.591Forecast
2025-0.297
20240.165
20230.0478
20220.0235
2021-0.882
20200.287
20190.276
20180.0306
20170.374
20160.461

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook2013–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2017–2023
  • 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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