General government net lending/borrowing (% of GDP)
Overall fiscal balance of the general government (IMF WEO), surplus positive.
- World average (population-weighted)
- -5.2 %
- across 97 countries, 2025
- Latest observation
- 2025
- forecast → 2031
- Source updated
- 14 Apr 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
No data available
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
Not enough countries to aggregate this indicator for World.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2025.
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Definition
- Definition
- Overall fiscal balance of the general government (IMF WEO), surplus positive.
- Unit
- % of GDP (% GDP)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · Higher is better
- Valid range
- -150 – 100
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source196 countries · 7,697 obs. · → 2031 · © International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook database (April 2026)
IMF WEO — Net lending (+) / net borrowing (-), General government, Percent of GDP
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=fiscal-balance-pct-gdp" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'