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Cape Verde: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1981–2024 · 44 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2024
112.8%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
−4.6 pointsfrom 117.5%
Average, 2015–2024
122.3%10 years
Record high and low
149.5% (2021)low 36.9% (1981)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203171.4Forecast
203076.1Forecast
202981.1Forecast
202885.8Forecast
202790.7Forecast
202695.9Forecast
2025101.0Forecast
2024112.8
2023117.5
2022127.6
2021149.5
2020149.1
2019109.8
2018112.3
2017113.0
2016115.6
2015115.7

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1981–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1994–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1997–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Cape Verde 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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