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Afghanistan: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2002–2025 · 24 observations · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
7.98%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.9 pointsfrom 8.91%
Average, 2016–2025
8.42%10 years
Record high and low
346.0% (2002)low 6.14% (2019)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20257.98
20248.91
20238.25
202210.6
202111.1
20207.33
20196.14
20187.38
20178.00
20168.44

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database2002–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2002–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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