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Belgium: General government debt

Millions of local currency · 1835–2025 · 181 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt

2025
692 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+7.5%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.7%a year

General government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031944,668Forecast
2030897,781Forecast
2029852,988Forecast
2028811,168Forecast
2027770,650Forecast
2026730,736Forecast
2025692,461
2024644,199
2023617,175
2022580,354
2021550,285
2020516,439
2019468,385
2018460,210
2017455,076
2016453,193

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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