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Switzerland: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1899–2025 · 112 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
0.452%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.0 pointsfrom 0.50%
Average, 2016–2025
0.225%10 years
Record high and low
2.24% (1956)low −10.0% (1940)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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-12%-10%-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%4%1900192019401960198020002020SwitzerlandSwitzerland
ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20310.179Forecast
20300.179Forecast
20290.231Forecast
20280.263Forecast
20270.321Forecast
20260.323Forecast
20250.452
20240.50
20230.40
20221.20
2021-1.20
2020-2.70
20191.10
20181.30
20170.90
20160.30

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1899–2023
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1977–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1983–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1990–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2024
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • 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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