Botswana vs Zimbabwe: Fiscal balance, cash surplus/deficit
Fiscal balance, cash surplus/deficit over time
- Botswana
- Zimbabwe
How they compare
Botswana currently reports -297.00 million current US$ against -440.00 million current US$ in Zimbabwe, a difference of 143.00 million current US$.
Across all 7 years both countries report, Botswana has been ahead every year.
Botswana ranks 18th and Zimbabwe ranks 20th of 29 countries.
Botswana has averaged higher in every one of the 1 decades both report.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher fiscal balance, cash surplus/deficit, Botswana or Zimbabwe?
- Botswana, at -297.00 million current US$ against -440.00 million current US$ in Zimbabwe as of 2011.
- What is the difference in fiscal balance, cash surplus/deficit between Botswana and Zimbabwe?
- 143.00 million current US$, with Botswana ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Botswana and Zimbabwe?
- 7 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 1996.
- How do Botswana and Zimbabwe rank globally for fiscal balance, cash surplus/deficit?
- Botswana ranks 18th and Zimbabwe ranks 20th of 29 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, published as Fiscal balance, cash surplus/deficit (current US$). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
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).