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Canada: Central government debt

Millions of local currency · 1867–2024 · 156 observations · cgovdebt

2024
1.56 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+6.2%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+6.8%a year

Central government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20241,564,775
20231,474,055
20221,368,851
20211,406,623
20201,345,741
2019904,305
2018886,431
2017883,708
2016868,509
2015859,200

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Canada 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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