Malawi recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 11.90 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2025. Government Budget in Malawi averaged -4.53 percent of GDP from 2002 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 0.10 percent of GDP in 2010 and a record low of -11.90 percent of GDP in 2025. source: Reserve Bank of Malawi
Government Budget in Malawi is expected to reach -9.00 percent of GDP by the end of 2026, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Malawi Government Budget is projected to trend around -8.50 percent of GDP in 2027 and -7.00 percent of GDP in 2028, according to our econometric models.