Malawi recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 8.20 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2024. Government Budget in Malawi averaged -4.20 percent of GDP from 2002 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 0.10 percent of GDP in 2010 and a record low of -10.10 percent of GDP in 2023. source: Reserve Bank of Malawi
Government Budget in Malawi is expected to reach -9.50 percent of GDP by the end of 2025, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Malawi Government Budget is projected to trend around -8.60 percent of GDP in 2026 and -7.00 percent of GDP in 2027, according to our econometric models.