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Turkey: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−2.78%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.9 pointsfrom −4.71%
Average, 2016–2025
−3.14%10 years
Record high and low
0.497% (2015)low −13.8% (1999)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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-14%-12%-10%-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%1970198019902000201020202030TurkeyTurkey
ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.68Forecast
2030-2.79Forecast
2029-2.90Forecast
2028-3.51Forecast
2027-3.67Forecast
2026-2.63Forecast
2025-2.78
2024-4.71
2023-4.79
2022-2.06
2021-1.12
2020-4.63
2019-4.33
2018-2.87
2017-2.78
2016-1.32

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1970–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2008–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2008–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2008–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook2009–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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