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Ethiopia: Central government debt (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1981–2019 · 26 observations · cgovdebt_GDP

2019
31.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2018
−1.1 pointsfrom 32.5%
Average, 2013–2019
27.0%7 years
Record high and low
90.3% (1994)low 10.7% (2013)

Central government debt (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
201931.4
201832.5
201730.1
201629.0
201527.9
201426.9
201310.7
199983.5
199876.1
199767.7

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1981–1992
  • World Development Indicators1990–2019

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Ethiopia 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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