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China: Central government debt

Millions of local currency · 1982–2009 · 28 observations · cgovdebt

2009
7.96 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2008
+46.4%year on year
Average growth, 1999–2009
+22.9%a year

Central government debt

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10B100B1T10T19851990199520002005ChinaChina
Local currency

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20097,964,794
20085,440,572
20074,872,237
20062,713,631
20052,397,808
20042,247,043
20031,889,822
20021,623,586
20011,391,829
20001,231,305

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

China 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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