Malawi recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 5.60 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2017. Government Budget in Malawi averaged -3.80 percent of GDP from 2002 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 0.10 percent of GDP in 2010 and a record low of -7.90 percent of GDP in 2002.
Government Budget in Malawi is expected to be -5.02 percent of GDP by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Malawi Government Budget is projected to trend around -3.88 percent of GDP in 2020, according to our econometric models.