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Eritrea: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1995–2019 · 25 observations · gen_govdebt_GDP

2019
260.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2018
−6.7 pointsfrom 267.1%
Average, 2010–2019
232.2%10 years
Record high and low
290.4% (2017)low 42.4% (1995)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2019260.4
2018267.1
2017290.4
2016251.2
2015271.4
2014204.5
2013232.4
2012171.6
2011171.6
2010201.8

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1995–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2019
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2019

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Eritrea 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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