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Burkina Faso: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1976–2024 · 49 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2024
57.2%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+0.4 pointsfrom 56.8%
Average, 2015–2024
45.0%10 years
Record high and low
59.2% (2022)low 9.68% (1976)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203146.4Forecast
203046.4Forecast
202946.6Forecast
202846.9Forecast
202747.1Forecast
202648.8Forecast
202552.0Forecast
202457.2
202356.8
202259.2
202155.5
202043.6
201941.7
201838.1
201733.9
201632.9
201531.3

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1976–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1985–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2002–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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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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