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Cameroon: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2024 · 55 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2024
43.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
−0.1 pointsfrom 43.6%
Average, 2015–2024
40.5%10 years
Record high and low
78.7% (1995)low 10.3% (1970)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203131.9Forecast
203033.4Forecast
202935.4Forecast
202837.0Forecast
202738.6Forecast
202639.3Forecast
202540.4Forecast
202443.4
202343.6
202245.6
202147.2
202044.9
201941.6
201838.3
201736.5
201632.1
201531.6

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1970–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1998–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Cameroon 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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