Botswana recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 1 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2018. Government Budget in Botswana averaged 0.01 percent of GDP from 2004 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 11.20 percent of GDP in 2007 and a record low of -10.70 percent of GDP in 2010.
Government Budget in Botswana is expected to be -1.50 percent of GDP by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Botswana Government Budget is projected to trend around -0.50 percent of GDP in 2020, according to our econometric models.