Title: Cash surplus/deficit (% of GDP) for Australia Series ID: CASHBLAUA188A Source: World Bank Release: World Development Indicators (Not a Press Release) Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Annual Units: Percent of GDP Date Range: 1972-01-01 to 2014-01-01 Last Updated: 2018-09-27 1:31 PM CDT Notes: 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). World Bank sources: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, and World Bank and OECD GDP estimates. Source Indicator: GC.BAL.CASH.GD.ZS DATE VALUE 1972-01-01 9.376616949000040 1973-01-01 3.967088454806980 1974-01-01 8.639638742238600 1975-01-01 3.201440366843430 1976-01-01 -4.291040288635000 1977-01-01 -2.629632330725230 1978-01-01 -5.831393351906280 1979-01-01 -5.962439333192640 1980-01-01 -2.656441946171310 1981-01-01 0.323592667863696 1982-01-01 2.039816302576550 1983-01-01 -5.438664247131200 1984-01-01 -11.619611023348900 1985-01-01 -5.334945339372680 1986-01-01 -2.753563027535630 1987-01-01 1.878676946659990 1988-01-01 5.709101233165880 1989-01-01 10.170966198286000 1990-01-01 9.949860352499240 1991-01-01 0.559768687246122 1992-01-01 -16.415600816216500 1993-01-01 -22.950302955167900 1994-01-01 -21.860845889652100 1995-01-01 . 1996-01-01 . 1997-01-01 . 1998-01-01 . 1999-01-01 24.651978557828800 2000-01-01 94.363993646756900 2001-01-01 38.118889333548500 2002-01-01 -22.534846952302100 2003-01-01 38.481279184410700 2004-01-01 35.977636910379800 2005-01-01 52.062661913415300 2006-01-01 69.631257102823700 2007-01-01 60.741864192080700 2008-01-01 64.146848392830200 2009-01-01 -85.629371628277900 2010-01-01 -109.035747216815000 2011-01-01 -92.006341132444200 2012-01-01 -60.780319890297100 2013-01-01 -8.817862702483560 2014-01-01 -7.382659610318960