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Canada: General government debt

Millions of local currency · 1870–2024 · 155 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt

2024
3.31 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+8.9%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+6.8%a year

General government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20314,087,701Forecast
20304,005,232Forecast
20293,919,006Forecast
20283,826,557Forecast
20273,732,502Forecast
20263,611,727Forecast
20253,563,658Forecast
20243,310,483
20233,038,793
20222,912,896
20212,834,429
20202,621,648
20192,084,754
20182,029,006
20171,947,740
20161,873,183
20151,836,832

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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