Spring round of macroeconomic projections for 2023 - 2024

5/31/2023

The CBBH expects significantly stronger economic activity in the medium term, compared to the previous round of projections, but also stronger inflationary pressures in 2023

PDF - Spring round of macroeconomic projections for 2023 - 2024

Key indicators

  • In this round of projections, the trends in key macroeconomic variables are unchanged compared to the projections from November 2022.
  • The projection of the growth of economic activity in BH in 2023 has been corrected slightly upwards, to the level of 1.6%, although it still indicates a significant slowdown in growth, compared to the multi-year average. We currently project real economic growth in 2024 at 3.2%.
  • In 2023, we project inflation of 7.7%, which is 1.6 percentage points higher than the projection from November 2022. A key reason for the upward revision is the continued rise in food prices and core inflation. Already from the second quarter, we expect a gradual weakening of inflationary pressures until the end of the projection period.
  • We continue to emphasize that the economy is not in a classic business cycle, and that the estimated values of real GDP, its components, and other macroeconomic variables are exposed to an extremely high degree of uncertainty.


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