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Barbados: Government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · 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)

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

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Barbados documentation (PDF)

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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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