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Tuvalu: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2004–2025 · 22 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
31.6%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+35.1 pointsfrom −3.44%
Average, 2016–2025
8.29%10 years
Record high and low
31.6% (2025)low −36.8% (2006)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-8.78Forecast
2030-7.90Forecast
2029-6.93Forecast
2028-5.83Forecast
2027-4.54Forecast
2026-1.26Forecast
202531.6
2024-3.44
202310.1
2022-14.6
2021-13.3
202013.7
2019-1.07
201830.3
20172.09
201627.5

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook2004–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2012–2021
  • Asian Development Bank2012–2024
  • 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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