Ethiopia recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 1.20 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2025. Government Budget in Ethiopia averaged -3.11 percent of GDP from 1990 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 6.60 percent of GDP in 2003 and a record low of -8.90 percent of GDP in 2000. source: Ministry of Finance and Economic Development
Government Budget in Ethiopia is expected to reach -1.80 percent of GDP by the end of 2026, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Ethiopia Government Budget is projected to trend around -2.00 percent of GDP in 2027 and -2.30 percent of GDP in 2028, according to our econometric models.