Burkina Faso recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 4.90 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2018. Government Budget in Burkina Faso averaged -2.61 percent of GDP from 2002 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 16.70 percent of GDP in 2006 and a record low of -5.70 percent of GDP in 2007.
Government Budget in Burkina Faso is expected to be -3.40 percent of GDP by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Burkina Faso Government Budget is projected to trend around -2.70 percent of GDP in 2020, according to our econometric models.