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Bolivia: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1953–2025 · 57 observations · forecasts to 2026 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
84.8%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.6 pointsfrom 83.2%
Average, 2016–2025
62.5%10 years
Record high and low
196.1% (1985)low 9.40% (1953)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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0%50%100%150%200%1960197019801990200020102020BoliviaBolivia, 1953: 9.40%Bolivia
ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2026102.7Forecast
202584.8
202483.2
202378.3
202269.2
202168.7
202067.5
201948.9
201844.2
201741.9
201638.2

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1953–2023
  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1970–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2026

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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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