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Ecuador: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1939–2025 · 85 observations · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
54.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.3 pointsfrom 54.1%
Average, 2016–2025
54.1%10 years
Record high and low
109.8% (1990)low 5.54% (1944)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202554.4
202454.1
202354.5
202257.2
202161.8
202063.6
201952.1
201849.5
201747.4
201646.1

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1939–2015
  • Kehoe & Nicolini1960–2017
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1995–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2001–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025

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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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