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Denmark: Government debt

Millions of local currency · 1880–2025 · 146 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdebt

2025
854 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
−4.5%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
−0.6%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,092,460Forecast
20301,038,878Forecast
2029984,816Forecast
2028932,308Forecast
2027886,478Forecast
2026878,850Forecast
2025853,795
2024894,120
2023924,556
2022947,567
20211,017,447
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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