El Salvador recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 3.43% of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2025. Government Budget in El Salvador averaged -1.56 percent of GDP from 1990 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 3.30 percent of GDP in 1992 and a record low of -9.11 percent of GDP in 2020. source: Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador
Government Budget in El Salvador is expected to reach -1.50 percent of GDP by the end of 2026, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the El Salvador Government Budget is projected to trend around -1.20 percent of GDP in 2027, according to our econometric models.