Afghanistan recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 0.70 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product in 2017. Government Budget in Afghanistan averaged -12.53 percent of GDP from 2006 until 2017, reaching an all time high of -0.70 percent of GDP in 2015 and a record low of -26.80 percent of GDP in 2008.
Government Budget in Afghanistan is expected to be -0.40 percent of GDP by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Afghanistan Government Budget is projected to trend around -0.70 percent of GDP in 2020, according to our econometric models.
