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Trinidad and Tobago: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1988–2025 · 38 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−5.46%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.5 pointsfrom −5.92%
Average, 2016–2025
−6.17%10 years
Record high and low
5.70% (2008)low −11.8% (2020)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.73Forecast
2030-2.46Forecast
2029-2.20Forecast
2028-1.71Forecast
2027-2.50Forecast
2026-4.57Forecast
2025-5.46
2024-5.92
2023-1.20
20220.956
2021-8.39
2020-11.8
2019-3.72
2018-5.89
2017-10.5
2016-9.84

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1988–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1988–2025
  • 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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