Fiscal balance, cash surplus/deficit (% of GDP) - GFS - Basic Inds. and Nat. Accts - African Development Indicators

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Cash surplus or deficit is revenue (including grants) minus expense, minus net acquisition of nonfinancial assets. In the 1986 GFS manual nonfinancial assets were included under revenue and expenditure in gross terms. This cash surplus or deficit is closest to the earlier overall budget balance (still missing is lending minus repayments, which are now a financing item under net acquisition of financial assets). Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, and World Bank and OECD GDP estimates.
Fiscal balance, cash surplus/deficit (% of GDP) - GFS - Basic Inds. and Nat. Accts - African Development Indicators (Most Recent Data)

Rank

Country

Value
1Botswana (1996)9.86
2Republic of the Congo (2005)9.62
3Lesotho (2007)8.8
4Algeria (2007)6.18
5Morocco (2007)2.53
6South Africa (2007)1.65
7North Africa (2007)0.93
8Benin (2006)0.26
9Gambia (1990)0.13
10Cameroon (1999)0.12
11Democratic Republic of the Congo (2001)-0
12Sudan (1999)-0.39
13Central African Republic (2004)-0.47
14Ivory Coast (2007)-0.83
15Togo (2007)-0.83
16Zambia (2007)-0.84
17Niger (2007)-0.93
18Africa (2004)-1.39
19Cape Verde (2006)-1.67
20Uganda (2006)-1.87
21Senegal (2001)-2.06
22Mauritius (2007)-2.27
23Burundi (1999)-2.36
24Guinea (1999)-2.39
25Sierra Leone (2004)-2.48
26Madagascar (2007)-2.66
27Swaziland (2003)-2.75
28Kenya (2007)-3.01
29Tunisia (2008)-3.19
30Egypt (2007)-4.56
31Zimbabwe (1997)-5.22
32Mali (2007)-5.63
33Rwanda (1992)-5.65
34Seychelles (2007)-6.01
35Burkina Faso (2006)-6.11
36Namibia (2003)-6.17
37Ethiopia (2002)-7.56
38Ghana (2007)-7.7
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