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Brazil: Government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1880–2024 · 145 observations · forecasts to 2031 · 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)

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

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Brazil 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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