Switzerland recorded a Government Budget surplus equal to 1.20 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2017. Government Budget in Switzerland averaged -0.59 percent of GDP from 1990 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 1.90 percent of GDP in 2008 and a record low of -3.20 percent of GDP in 1993.
Government Budget in Switzerland is expected to be 0.50 percent of GDP by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Switzerland General Government Budget is projected to trend around 0.30 percent of GDP in 2020, according to our econometric models.