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Argentina: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1864–2025 · 162 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
80.3%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−4.3 pointsfrom 84.7%
Average, 2016–2025
87.4%10 years
Record high and low
154.6% (2023)low 5.29% (1864)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203152.2Forecast
203055.4Forecast
202959.3Forecast
202863.0Forecast
202768.1Forecast
202670.4Forecast
202580.3
202484.7
2023154.6
202284.3
202181.0
2020103.8
201989.8
201885.2
201757.0
201653.1

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1864–2023
  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1884–2015
  • Kehoe & Nicolini1960–2017
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1992–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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