Maldives recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 5.50 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2018. Government Budget in Maldives averaged -5.90 percent of GDP from 1997 until 2018, reaching an all time high of -1.15 percent of GDP in 2004 and a record low of -20.50 percent of GDP in 2009.
Government Budget in Maldives is expected to be -4.70 percent of GDP by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Maldives Government Budget is projected to trend around -4.50 percent of GDP in 2020, according to our econometric models.