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Burkina Faso: Central government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2024 · 55 observations · cgovdebt_GDP

2024
52.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+0.0 pointsfrom 52.7%
Average, 2015–2024
43.9%10 years
Record high and low
56.4% (2022)low 2.23% (1970)

Central government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202452.7
202352.7
202256.4
202155.4
202043.6
201941.7
201838.1
201733.9
201632.9
201531.3

Sources

  • IMF Global Debt Database1970–2024
  • AFRISTAT1990–2022
  • WDI (archive)1991–1994
  • World Development Indicators2018–2024

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Burkina Faso 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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