Tunisia: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Name: Tunisia: General government deficit (% of GDP)
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Percent of GDP · 1991–2025 · 35 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025: −5.24%percent of GDP
Change on 2024: +1.1 pointsfrom −6.36%
Average, 2016–2025: −6.02%10 years
Record high and low: −0.457% (2010)low −8.88% (2020)

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Year	Value
2031	-6.80	Forecast
2030	-6.45	Forecast
2029	-6.08	Forecast
2028	-5.99	Forecast
2027	-6.52	Forecast
2026	-7.40	Forecast
2025	-5.24
2024	-6.36
2023	-7.27
2022	-7.00
2021	-7.70
2020	-8.88
2019	-2.93
2018	-4.14
2017	-5.54
2016	-5.09

Sources

IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1991–2023
IMF World Economic Outlook1991–2025
IMF Government Finance Statistics2008–2012
Arab Monetary Fund2013–2021
IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Tunisia 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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