Zimbabwe recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 1.10 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2016. Government Budget in Zimbabwe averaged -2.49 percent of GDP from 1990 until 2016, reaching an all time high of 1.30 percent of GDP in 2008 and a record low of -7.51 percent of GDP in 1992.
Government Budget in Zimbabwe is expected to be -1.57 percent of GDP by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Zimbabwe Government Budget is projected to trend around -1.56 percent of GDP in 2020, according to our econometric models.