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General government gross debt (% of GDP)

Gross debt of the general government sector (IMF WEO), including projections.

% of GDP · Annual · 192 of 218 countries (88 %) · 1980–2025
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World average (population-weighted)
70.2 %
across 94 countries, 2025
Latest observation
2025
forecast → 2031
Source updated
14 Apr 2026
CountryAtlas refreshed
11 Sep 2026
Snapshot 20260911T072322Z

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One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.

1980–2025 · 94 countries
Gross debt / GDP, 2025World map of Gross debt / GDP (2025) for 94 countries, from 3.6 % to 171.3 %.Fiji: 78.7 %Tanzania: —W. Sahara: —Canada: —United States: 123.9 %Kazakhstan: —Uzbekistan: 28.6 %Papua New Guinea: 52.1 %Indonesia: 41.0 %Argentina: 80.3 %Chile: —DR Congo: —Somalia: —Kenya: 69.3 %Sudan: —Chad: —Haiti: 12.3 %Dominican Republic: 59.0 %Russia: 17.2 %Bahamas: 73.8 %Falkland Is.: —Norway: —Greenland: —Fr. S. Antarctic Lands: —Timor-Leste: —South Africa: 78.6 %Lesotho: 49.1 %Mexico: —Uruguay: 65.7 %Brazil: —Bolivia: 84.8 %Peru: 30.2 %Colombia: 59.9 %Panama: 56.6 %Costa Rica: —Nicaragua: —Honduras: —El Salvador: 87.2 %Guatemala: —Belize: 67.9 %Venezuela: —Guyana: 28.6 %Suriname: —France: —Ecuador: 54.4 %Puerto Rico: 18.0 %Jamaica: 67.7 %Cuba: —Zimbabwe: 43.8 %Botswana: 38.6 %Namibia: —Senegal: —Mali: —Mauritania: —Benin: —Niger: —Nigeria: —Cameroon: —Togo: 63.0 %Ghana: —Côte d'Ivoire: 56.3 %Guinea: 48.1 %Guinea-Bissau: —Liberia: 54.9 %Sierra Leone: —Burkina Faso: —Central African Republic: 61.8 %Republic of the Congo: —Gabon: —Equatorial Guinea: —Zambia: 86.0 %Malawi: 78.4 %Mozambique: —Eswatini: 44.9 %Angola: 51.3 %Burundi: —Israel: 68.5 %Lebanon: 139.4 %Madagascar: 48.7 %Palestine: —Gambia: —Tunisia: 81.3 %Algeria: —Jordan: —United Arab Emirates: —Qatar: —Kuwait: —Iraq: 53.9 %Oman: —Vanuatu: —Cambodia: 26.5 %Thailand: 64.7 %Laos: —Myanmar: 51.9 %Vietnam: —North Korea: —South Korea: —Mongolia: 45.1 %India: 84.1 %Bangladesh: 42.0 %Bhutan: 103.6 %Nepal: 48.1 %Pakistan: 72.8 %Afghanistan: 8.0 %Tajikistan: —Kyrgyzstan: —Turkmenistan: —Iran: 37.3 %Syria: —Armenia: 49.0 %Sweden: —Belarus: —Ukraine: —Poland: —Austria: —Hungary: 75.2 %Moldova: 36.6 %Romania: —Lithuania: —Latvia: —Estonia: —Germany: 62.9 %Bulgaria: 27.1 %Greece: —Türkiye: 23.5 %Albania: 52.6 %Croatia: —Switzerland: 39.4 %Luxembourg: 27.0 %Belgium: —Netherlands: —Portugal: —Spain: 100.4 %Ireland: —New Caledonia: —Solomon Islands: —New Zealand: 54.7 %Australia: —Sri Lanka: —China: —Taiwan: —Italy: 137.1 %Denmark: —United Kingdom: 102.3 %Iceland: —Azerbaijan: 20.1 %Georgia: 34.3 %Philippines: 59.4 %Malaysia: 70.7 %Brunei: —Slovenia: —Finland: —Slovakia: —Czechia: —Eritrea: —Japan: —Paraguay: 38.1 %Yemen: —Saudi Arabia: 31.7 %N. Cyprus: —Cyprus: 55.3 %Morocco: —Egypt: 86.8 %Libya: —Ethiopia: 43.1 %Djibouti: —Somaliland: —Uganda: —Rwanda: 64.6 %Bosnia and Herzegovina: —North Macedonia: 52.5 %Serbia: 42.4 %Montenegro: 67.1 %Kosovo: —Trinidad and Tobago: 84.2 %South Sudan: —
Gross debt / GDP, 2025
  • 3.6 % – 28.0 %
  • 28.0 % – 44.9 %
  • 44.9 % – 54.8 %
  • 54.8 % – 67.1 %
  • 67.1 % – 82.7 %
  • 82.7 % – 171.3 %
  • No data
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Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.

countries per year: 11–191
World · Gross debt / GDP
Population-weighted mean
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World · Gross debt / GDP2 series from 1980 to 2025: Population-weighted mean, Median.198019902000201020200%20%40%60%80%

2 series from 1980 to 2025: Population-weighted mean, Median.

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Gross debt / GDP3 series from 1980 to 2031: United States, Germany, United Kingdom.1980199020002010202020300%50%100%150%200%

3 series from 1980 to 2031: United States, Germany, United Kingdom.

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Definition

Definition
Gross debt of the general government sector (IMF WEO), including projections.
Unit
% of GDP (% GDP)
Frequency
Annual
Aggregation
none · Lower is better
Valid range
0 – 600

Sources & provenance

Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.

  1. Priority #1
    International Monetary FundWEOGGXWDG_NGDPpartial
    192 countries · 6,944 obs. · → 2031 · © International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook database (April 2026)

    IMF WEO — Gross debt, General government, Percent of GDP

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  2. Priority #2
    Eurostatgov_10dd_edpt1GD.S13.PC_GDPok
    27 countries · 832 obs. · → 2025 · CC BY 4.0

    Eurostat gov_10dd_edpt1 — Government deficit/surplus, debt and associated data

    Open at source

Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.

Countries without data

124 of 218 countries have no value for 2025.

Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.

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curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=general-government-gross-debt-pct-gdp" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'

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