Primary net lending/borrowing (also referred as primary balance) (IMF)

Overall balance excluding net interest payment (interest expenditure minus interest revenue).

Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
188
Licence
IMF Terms and Conditions
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as International Monetary Fund declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    International Monetary Fund

    FM — Fiscal Monitor (April 2026)

    declared by imf in dataset/source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania20310.01percent
Algeria2031-6.69percent
Andorra20312.53percent
Angola20310.32percent
Anguilla20312.31percent
Antigua and Barbuda20311.00percent
Argentina20313.41percent
Armenia20311.38percent
Aruba20313.92percent
Australia2031-0.53percent

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