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Australia: Central government debt

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

2024
1 trillionlocal 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
20241,003,228
2023937,307
2022888,975
2021905,524
2020864,686
2019732,730
2018626,359
2017585,521
2016539,325
2015468,299

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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