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Brazil: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1880–2024 · 136 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2024
87.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+3.0 pointsfrom 84.0%
Average, 2015–2024
84.4%10 years
Record high and low
120.7% (1884)low 5.54% (1952)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031106.5Forecast
2030105.5Forecast
2029104.1Forecast
2028102.3Forecast
2027100.0Forecast
202696.5Forecast
202593.3Forecast
202487.0
202384.0
202283.9
202188.9
202096.0
201987.1
201884.8
201782.7
201677.4
201571.7

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1880–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1880–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2024
  • IMF Global Debt Database2001–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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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