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United States: Central government deficit

Millions of local currency · 1792–2025 · 234 observations · cgovdef

2025
−956 billionlocal currency

Central government deficit

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2025-955,961
2024-1,241,240
2023-1,218,792
2022-515,956
2021-2,087,315
2020-1,922,847
2019-579,161
2018-468,673
2017-86,146
2016-228,687

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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