Hong Kong Government Budget Balance (% of GDP)
The gap between what government takes in and what it spends in a year, across all levels of government.
−4.5%
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1981 to 2025
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook (GGXCNL_NGDP) · general government net lending (+) or borrowing (-), % of GDP, annual · actual years only. The IMF's figures for the years after the one shown are projections, which this site does not publish.
Hong Kong Government Budget Balance (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Hong Kong, the government budget balance rose by 1.2pp in 2025, from −5.8% in 2024.
It is the highest reading since 2021.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −9.2% in 2020 to 0.0% in 2021.
Its average since 1981 is 0.6%, and the latest reading is below that.
Hong Kong is 39th of 52 countries in our Government Budget Balance by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- IMF
- Series
- World
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
A negative number is a deficit.
Data refreshed 2026-10-16. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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