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Belgium: Government debt

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

2025
686 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+7.5%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.6%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031931,660Forecast
2030885,453Forecast
2029841,309Forecast
2028800,093Forecast
2027760,409Forecast
2026721,941Forecast
2025685,769
2024637,973
2023611,488
2022582,282
2021550,259
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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