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Bahrain: Central government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1974–2024 · 51 observations · cgovdebt_GDP

2024
134.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+11.0 pointsfrom 123.0%
Average, 2015–2024
102.9%10 years
Record high and low
134.0% (2024)low 0.264% (1974)

Central government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2024134.0
2023123.0
2022111.6
2021122.3
2020125.7
201997.1
201890.4
201784.0
201677.4
201563.2

Sources

  • IMF Global Debt Database1974–2024
  • WDI (archive)1980–1997
  • World Development Indicators1990–2020

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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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