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Belgium: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1835–2025 · 181 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
107.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+3.9 pointsfrom 103.9%
Average, 2016–2025
104.4%10 years
Record high and low
234.3% (1943)low 9.67% (1837)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031122.7Forecast
2030119.8Forecast
2029117.0Forecast
2028114.5Forecast
2027111.9Forecast
2026109.5Forecast
2025107.9
2024103.9
2023102.5
2022103.3
2021108.7
2020111.4
201997.7
2018100.2
2017102.6
2016105.8

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1835–2023
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1870–2020
  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1880–2015
  • AMECO (European Commission)1969–2025
  • IMF Global Debt Database1970–2024
  • Bordo1971–1995
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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