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Barbados: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2025 · 53 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
94.2%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−4.7 pointsfrom 98.9%
Average, 2016–2025
111.0%10 years
Record high and low
134.6% (2017)low 13.1% (1973)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203169.1Forecast
203073.1Forecast
202977.0Forecast
202881.2Forecast
202785.1Forecast
202689.5Forecast
202594.2
202498.9
2023104.1
2022104.0
2021108.6
2020129.6
2019101.6
2018107.2
2017134.6
2016127.1

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1970–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1994–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1994–2025
  • 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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