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Uruguay: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1972–2025 · 54 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
−3.36%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.2 pointsfrom −3.16%
Average, 2016–2025
−2.91%10 years
Record high and low
0.994% (1979)low −13.1% (1989)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.12Forecast
2030-2.12Forecast
2029-2.23Forecast
2028-2.67Forecast
2027-3.16Forecast
2026-3.75Forecast
2025-3.36
2024-3.16
2023-3.09
2022-2.50
2021-2.61
2020-4.64
2019-2.71
2018-1.89
2017-2.51
2016-2.68

Sources

  • Kehoe & Nicolini1972–2017
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1972–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1999–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Uruguay documentation (PDF)

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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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