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Austria: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1880–2025 · 126 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
81.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.6 pointsfrom 80.0%
Average, 2016–2025
79.1%10 years
Record high and low
90.4% (1892)low 8.32% (1957)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203187.6Forecast
203086.4Forecast
202985.4Forecast
202884.6Forecast
202784.0Forecast
202682.5Forecast
202581.5
202480.0
202377.8
202278.1
202182.4
202083.2
201971.0
201874.6
201779.1
201683.4

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1880–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1880–2023
  • IMF Global Debt Database1970–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1970–2025
  • Bordo1971–1996
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1988–2024
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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