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El Salvador: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1939–2025 · 74 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
87.2%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.1 pointsfrom 87.4%
Average, 2016–2025
83.4%10 years
Record high and low
95.4% (2020)low 2.27% (1961)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203174.4Forecast
203076.6Forecast
202978.4Forecast
202880.3Forecast
202782.2Forecast
202684.5Forecast
202587.2
202487.4
202385.0
202283.7
202188.0
202095.4
201977.9
201877.0
201777.1
201675.2

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1939–2015
  • Central American Monetary Council (historical)1991–2017
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1991–2023
  • IMF Global Debt Database1991–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1991–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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El Salvador 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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