Pakistan recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 6.60 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2018. Government Budget in Pakistan averaged 1.18 percent of GDP from 1990 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 8.80 percent of GDP in 1990 and a record low of -8.80 percent of GDP in 2012.
Government Budget in Pakistan is expected to be -7.20 percent of GDP by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Pakistan Government Budget is projected to trend around -6.80 percent of GDP in 2020, according to our econometric models.