It was the first time the deficit had grown since January.
The deficit and debt are growing faster than the economy.
The reason the deficit still grew in the last year, they said, was because exports were growing from a lower base.
At $220 billion in 1990, the deficit had grown to three times its size since 1980.
A year later, the deficit had grown to $6.5 billion.
The deficit would grow, the leaders have said, for free education and medical care.
So far this year the deficit has grown another 29 percent.
The society's deficit has been growing for more than a decade.
The deficit was growing about $33 million a month, the report stated.
In recent years the hospital's annual deficit grew to about $5 million.