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Sudan: Central government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1955–2025 · 71 observations · cgovdef_GDP

2025
−2.81%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.2 pointsfrom −1.58%
Average, 2016–2025
−4.35%10 years
Record high and low
2.96% (1959)low −24.3% (1991)

Central government deficit (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2025-2.81
2024-1.58
2023-2.67
2022-1.21
2021-0.266
2020-6.68
2019-10.0
2018-8.03
2017-5.83
2016-4.36

Sources

  • Mitchell1955–1982
  • African Development Bank1980–2025
  • World Development Indicators1998–2016

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Sudan documentation (PDF)

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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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