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Colombia: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1905–2025 · 121 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
59.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−1.1 pointsfrom 61.0%
Average, 2016–2025
56.9%10 years
Record high and low
65.3% (2020)low 3.82% (1926)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203159.2Forecast
203059.8Forecast
202960.4Forecast
202861.0Forecast
202761.3Forecast
202660.9Forecast
202559.9
202461.0
202355.4
202261.3
202164.4
202065.3
201951.0
201851.8
201749.4
201649.9

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1905–2023
  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1936–2015
  • Kehoe & Nicolini1960–2017
  • IMF Global Debt Database1996–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1996–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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