{"id":268782,"date":"2025-12-03T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=268782"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:34:58","slug":"armenias-budget-deficit-in-2025-will-not-exceed-5-and-public-debt-will-be-within-50-of-gdp-ministry-of-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2025\/12\/03\/268782\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s budget deficit in 2025 will not exceed 5%, and public debt will be within 50% of GDP \u2013 Ministry of Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, December 3. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>At the end of 2025, Armenia&#8217;s state budget deficit will not exceed 5% instead of the planned 5.5%, resulting in public debt not exceeding 50% of GDP, Armenian Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan announced Wednesday in parliament during the final discussion of the 2026 budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are entering 2026 more confident than ever \u2013 with a stable economy, a manageable and stable level of public debt, and great confidence in the future,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hovhannisyan noted that the reforms being implemented will continue to yield results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its November &#8220;Armenia Monthly Economic Update,&#8221; the World Bank noted that Armenia&#8217;s cumulative budget deficit from the first to third quarters reached 0.73% of the annual projected GDP, compared to the 2025 target of 5.5% of GDP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armenian Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan previously stated that the budget deficit is planned to be reduced from 5.5% to 4.5% in 2026, to 3.5% in 2027, then to 2.8%, and then to 1% by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also noted that the public debt-to-GDP ratio will stabilize in the 50-60% range in the medium term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of 2025, Armenia&#8217;s state budget deficit will not exceed 5% instead of the planned 5.5%, resulting in public debt not exceeding 50% of GDP, Armenian Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan announced Wednesday in parliament during the final discussion of the 2026 budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":262184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[12713],"class_list":{"0":"post-268782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-state-debt"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268782","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=268782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}