Sri Lanka: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Name: Sri Lanka: General government deficit (% of GDP)
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Percent of GDP · 1990–2025 · 36 observations · gen_govdef_GDP

2025: −2.24%percent of GDP
Change on 2024: +3.2 pointsfrom −5.43%
Average, 2016–2025: −7.38%10 years
Record high and low: −2.24% (2025)low −13.4% (2020)

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Year	Value
2025	-2.24
2024	-5.43
2023	-8.32
2022	-10.2
2021	-11.7
2020	-13.4
2019	-7.52
2018	-4.96
2017	-5.10
2016	-5.00

Sources

IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2022
IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2024
Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
Asian Development Bank2000–2025

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Sri Lanka documentation (PDF)

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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