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El Salvador: Government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1914–2025 · 112 observations · forecasts to 2031 · 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)

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

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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