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South Korea: Government deficit

Millions of local currency · 1953–2025 · 73 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdef

2025
−66.6 trillionlocal currency

Government deficit

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031-38,489,291Forecast
2030-37,332,706Forecast
2029-35,739,775Forecast
2028-40,416,208Forecast
2027-62,918,613Forecast
2026-62,971,859Forecast
2025-66,558,756
2024-37,477,099
2023-20,825,800
2022-186,900
2021-6,997,600
2020-53,009,701
201918,478,900
201857,247,099
201748,107,498
201637,922,199

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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