El Salvador recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 1.10 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2018. Government Budget in El Salvador averaged -1.02 percent of GDP from 1990 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 3.30 percent of GDP in 1992 and a record low of -3.70 percent of GDP in 2009.
Government Budget in El Salvador is expected to be -1.20 percent of GDP by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the El Salvador Government Budget is projected to trend around -1.10 percent of GDP in 2020, according to our econometric models.