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Denmark: General government debt

Millions of local currency · 1880–2025 · 140 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt

2025
855 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−4.3%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
−0.6%a year

General government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,078,617Forecast
20301,025,128Forecast
2029971,187Forecast
2028918,813Forecast
2027873,234Forecast
2026848,592Forecast
2025855,200
2024893,977
2023919,014
2022943,250
20211,011,796
20201,051,545
2019883,091
2018864,633
2017879,176
2016876,165

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Denmark 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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