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Belgium: Central government debt

Millions of local currency · 1835–2024 · 178 observations · cgovdebt

2024
524 billionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+3.1%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+3.8%a year

Central government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2024524,490
2023508,520
2022478,882
2021459,537
2020430,518
2019396,873
2018391,140
2017387,336
2016383,598
2015370,277

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Belgium 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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