Zambia: General government deficit (% of GDP)
Percent of GDP · 2000–2025 · 26 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP
- 2025
- −3.83%percent of GDP
- Change on 2024
- −0.4 pointsfrom −3.46%
- Average, 2016–2025
- −7.34%10 years
- Record high and low
- 16.9% (2006)low −13.8% (2020)
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Percent of GDP
| Year | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| 2031 | -1.96 | Forecast |
| 2030 | -1.51 | Forecast |
| 2029 | -1.88 | Forecast |
| 2028 | -3.12 | Forecast |
| 2027 | -4.42 | Forecast |
| 2026 | -4.87 | Forecast |
| 2025 | -3.83 | |
| 2024 | -3.46 | |
| 2023 | -5.48 | |
| 2022 | -7.82 | |
| 2021 | -8.13 | |
| 2020 | -13.8 | |
| 2019 | -9.41 | |
| 2018 | -8.31 | |
| 2017 | -7.50 | |
| 2016 | -5.69 |
Sources
- IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
- 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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