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Ecuador: Central government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1914–2018 · 105 observations · cgovdebt_GDP

2018
43.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2017
+1.8 pointsfrom 41.2%
Average, 2009–2018
27.3%10 years
Record high and low
86.8% (1918)low 4.65% (1944)

Central government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
201843.0
201741.2
201636.4
201531.6
201427.3
201322.6
201220.1
201117.3
201018.2
200915.5

Sources

  • Reinhart & Rogoff1914–2010
  • IMF Global Debt Database1990–2018

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Ecuador 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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