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Australia: Central government debt

Millions of local currency · 1861–2024 · 164 observations · cgovdebt

2024
998 billionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+7.0%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+9.7%a year

Central government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2024998,211
2023933,262
2022885,158
2021904,716
2020863,463
2019730,700
2018624,866
2017583,959
2016537,616
2015466,640

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Australia documentation (PDF)

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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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