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Zimbabwe: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2005–2025 · 21 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2025
0.0818%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.8 pointsfrom −0.756%
Average, 2016–2025
−3.07%10 years
Record high and low
0.531% (2020)low −9.45% (2023)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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-10%-8%-6%-4%-2%0%2%200520102015202020252030ZimbabweZimbabwe
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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-0.911Forecast
2030-0.905Forecast
2029-0.894Forecast
2028-0.901Forecast
2027-0.867Forecast
2026-0.753Forecast
20250.0818
2024-0.756
2023-9.45
2022-1.00
2021-1.83
20200.531
2019-0.0556
2018-4.55
2017-8.68
2016-4.99

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook2005–2025
  • 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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