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Brazil: Central government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1880–2024 · 145 observations · cgovdebt_GDP

2024
83.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+2.9 pointsfrom 80.5%
Average, 2015–2024
80.2%10 years
Record high and low
131.7% (1884)low 5.54% (1952)

Central government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202483.5
202380.5
202280.1
202184.5
202090.9
201982.7
201880.4
201778.6
201673.4
201567.5

Sources

  • Flandreau & Zumer1880–1913
  • Reinhart & Rogoff1889–2010
  • IMF Global Debt Database1950–2024
  • WDI (archive)1980–1986
  • World Development Indicators2010–2024

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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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