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Barbados: Central government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2024 · 55 observations · cgovdebt_GDP

2024
104.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
−9.1 pointsfrom 113.4%
Average, 2015–2024
123.0%10 years
Record high and low
143.6% (2017)low 20.9% (1975)

Central government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2024104.4
2023113.4
2022116.9
2021130.2
2020128.4
2019109.5
2018115.0
2017143.6
2016136.5
2015131.9

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1970–1989
  • IMF Global Debt Database1970–2024
  • World Development Indicators2005–2016

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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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