{"id":264477,"date":"2025-06-16T14:39:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=264477"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:44:23","slug":"armenias-state-budget-deficit-to-be-increased-to-2-8-of-gdp-in-2028-compared-to-5-5-in-2025-finance-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2025\/06\/16\/264477\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s state budget deficit to drop to 2.8% of GDP in 2028, compared to 5.5% in 2025 &#8211; Finance Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, June 16. \/AR\u041a\u0410\/. <\/strong>Armenia plans to cut the state budget deficit to 2.8% of GDP in 2028, compared to 5.5% planned for 2025, said RA Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In 2030, this ratio will be  1%, and it is planned to do this in such a way that programs important for the country&#8217;s economic development are not affected,&#8221; Hovhannisyan said at a press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Hovhannisyan said that the state budget deficit of Armenia in 2024 was less than expected by 0.9% &#8211; 3.7% instead of 4.6% of GDP. In absolute figures, this figure amounted to 376 billion drams or approximately $970 million; the public debt amounted to approximately 48% of GDP. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia plans to increase the state budget deficit to 2.8% of GDP in 2028, compared to 5.5% planned for 2025, said RA Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":263505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12315,12139,9216],"tags":[12688],"class_list":{"0":"post-264477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-announces","8":"category-economy-en","9":"category-news","10":"tag-armenia-analyst-inflation"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}