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Dominican Republic: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2025 · 64 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
59.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.2 pointsfrom 58.8%
Average, 2016–2025
57.3%10 years
Record high and low
79.2% (1987)low 3.86% (1955)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203150.0Forecast
203052.4Forecast
202954.0Forecast
202855.4Forecast
202756.7Forecast
202658.3Forecast
202559.0
202458.8
202360.5
202259.6
202162.8
202071.8
201953.5
201850.8
201749.5
201646.7

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1950–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1950–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1997–2025
  • Central American Monetary Council (historical)2005–2017
  • 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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