Bahrain recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 11.70 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2018. Government Budget in Bahrain averaged -4.31 percent of GDP from 2000 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 5.10 percent of GDP in 2005 and a record low of -18.40 percent of GDP in 2015.
Government Budget in Bahrain is expected to be -8.50 percent of GDP by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Bahrain Government Budget is projected to trend around -6.00 percent of GDP in 2020, according to our econometric models.