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Eswatini: General government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt_GDP

2025
44.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+4.8 pointsfrom 40.1%
Average, 2016–2025
33.8%10 years
Record high and low
45.1% (1985)low 10.6% (2009)

General government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203155.6Forecast
203055.9Forecast
202955.7Forecast
202854.0Forecast
202752.7Forecast
202650.0Forecast
202544.9
202440.1
202339.4
202239.5
202137.3
202037.7
201930.5
201826.5
201721.7
201620.1

Sources

  • IMF Historical Public Debt Database1970–2015
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1980–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1993–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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