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G7 general government budget balance, % of GDP, annual, 2006–2028
Line chart of G7 general government budget balances as a share of GDP, 2006 to 2028, with the US line below the other six in 2023 and 2024 and in the IMF's April 2026 figures and forecasts for 2025 to 2028, at minus 7.6% in 2028 against France at minus 4.3%.

Source: IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2026. Data as of April 2026 (WEO vintage; next update October 2026).
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IMF sees the US keeping the G7's widest budget deficit through 2028

The IMF's April 2026 figures put the US general government deficit (federal, state and local, not the federal deficit CBO reports) at 7.9% of GDP in 2024, the G7's widest. The IMF's 2025 figure and 2026-28 forecasts keep the US widest, at 7.6% in 2028.

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