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Sri Lanka: General government deficit

Millions of local currency · 1990–2025 · 36 observations · gen_govdef

2025
−729 billionlocal currency

General government deficit

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-2.5T-2T-1.5T-1T-500B019901995200020052010201520202025Sri LankaSri Lanka
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025-729,481
2024-1,622,175
2023-2,282,267
2022-2,459,967
2021-2,057,736
2020-2,093,414
2019-1,196,383
2018-760,769
2017-733,494
2016-640,326

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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