Government surplus or deficit, share of GDP: Germany vs Netherlands

Germany: -2.7 % (2025). Netherlands: -1.6 % (2025).

Government surplus or deficit, share of GDP in Germany and Netherlands, side by side from the same Eurostat series.

GermanyNetherlands
Latest figure-2.7 %-1.6 %
EU rank16 / 277 / 27
Change, 1 year0.0 %-0.9 %
Change, 5 years+1.7 %+2.1 %

Shared periods

PeriodGermanyNetherlandsGap
2025-2.7 %-1.6 %-1.1 %
2024-2.7 %-0.7 %-2.0 %
2023-2.5 %-0.4 %-2.1 %
2022-1.9 %0.0 %-1.9 %
2021-3.2 %-2.3 %-0.9 %
2020-4.4 %-3.7 %-0.7 %
20191.3 %1.9 %-0.6 %
20181.9 %1.5 %+0.4 %
20171.3 %1.4 %-0.1 %
20161.1 %0.2 %+0.9 %

Source: Eurostat, read into our register. Eurostat gov_10dd_edpt1

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