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Bulgaria: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1924–2025 · 55 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
29.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+6.0 pointsfrom 23.8%
Average, 2016–2025
24.4%10 years
Record high and low
253.0% (1993)low 11.5% (1924)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203141.5Forecast
203040.0Forecast
202938.3Forecast
202836.3Forecast
202735.3Forecast
202632.1Forecast
202529.9
202423.8
202322.9
202222.5
202123.8
202024.5
201920.1
201822.2
201725.1
201629.1

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1924–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1924–2023
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1995–2025
  • IMF Global Debt Database1997–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1998–2025
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Bulgaria 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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