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Benin: Government debt

Millions of local currency · 1970–2024 · 55 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdebt

2024
7.88 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+7.7%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+18.4%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
203111,816,368Forecast
203011,096,702Forecast
202910,428,825Forecast
20289,822,213Forecast
20279,447,297Forecast
20268,929,338Forecast
20258,187,572Forecast
20247,884,166
20237,318,969
20226,483,932
20215,450,977
20204,156,852
20193,476,586
20183,251,781
20172,920,507
20162,516,513
20152,080,455

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Benin 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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