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Bangladesh: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1974–2025 · 52 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
42.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.1 pointsfrom 41.0%
Average, 2016–2025
34.8%10 years
Record high and low
42.0% (2025)low 14.0% (1974)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203148.8Forecast
203047.9Forecast
202946.6Forecast
202845.3Forecast
202743.2Forecast
202641.8Forecast
202542.0
202441.0
202339.7
202237.9
202135.6
202034.5
201932.0
201829.6
201728.3
201627.7

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1974–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1990–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2003–2025
  • 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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